Woman Claims Church Leaders Harassed and Spanked Her on the Job, then Fired Her

By admin in Ladies Who Love the Lord · November 23, 2013 · No comments

A woman is claiming that she was fired from her church for treatment that was beyond comprehension.  The former employee of the St. Francis of Assisi Church in Chicago says that she was forced to leave her job due to various forms of harassment, which even included spanking.

She has filed a wrongful termination claim with the Department of Fair Employment and Housing.  But the church is sticking to its guns, saying that the woman was fired for a host of other reasons.

Jhona Mathews is in her early 30s and has a two-year old child. She was an assistant to the church rector Father Harold Sinider, according to ABC7.  She says that the church took advantage of the fact that she was a young single mother with no job skills.   She says that because she was a single mother with few employment options, the pastors would take advantage of her to fulfill various fantasies.

“Paddling with the wooden paddle, getting spanked in the sacristy of the shrine of St. Francis, which Catholics know, it’s just appalling to hear as a catholic and having sexual intercourse in the shrine of St. Francis,” Mathews’ attorney Sandra Ribera said.

The woman also says that the president of the church board of trustees, Bill McLaughlin, would send dirty pictures of himself to the woman.  She says that she was fired after she sent an email to him telling him to stop.

“When she put her foot down and said ‘I want to keep this professional, I want to focus on my job,’ a few weeks later she was fired,” Ribera said.

But the church says that the woman is lying and was fired for other reasons.

“We’ve seen the complaint filed with the state and it is inflammatory, it’s lurid, but those aren’t the reasons she was fired,” St. Francis of Assisi Board of Trustees spokesperson Larry Kamer said.

ABC7 News is reporting that the woman is being charged with embezzlement and may be creating the harassment claims as a cover.  But she says she never stole a dime from the church.  On the other hand, the church did just fire McLaughlin, which says that he may have had an inappropriate relationship with the woman.

“The father of the church, Father Snider decided that these were sufficient enough to warrant the termination from the board,” Kamer said.

 

 

 

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