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Ohio priest under investigation for relationship with minor threw himself off Chicago skyscraper

By Kyle Swenson, washingtonpost.com

On Wednesday morning Chicago police promptly cut off rush hour traffic on a street just north of Millennium Park. A man had flung himself from the heights of the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel, a sleek, ultramodern skyscraper reaching 82 stories into the downtown skyline.

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office announced the next day it was a suicide, the Chicago Tribune reported. The jumper’s name was James Csaszar.

Three hundred miles away, the ugly news jolted suburban Columbus, Ohio. Until November, Csaszar had worked as a Catholic priest at the Church of the Resurrection in New Albany, Ohio. Then, after misconduct allegations surfaced about the priest, the 44-year-old was placed on administrative leave.

Read more at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/12/22/ohio-priest-under-investigation-for-relationship-with-minor-threw-himself-off-chicago-skyscraper/?utm_term=.9c35a6078b0b

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