New Hastert Accuser To Remain Anonymous: Judge

YORKVILLE, IL — A man who says he was raped by former House Speaker Dennis Hastert filed a lawsuit Friday in Kendall County Court against the former teacher and coach at Yorkville High School. The plaintiff, identified in the suit as Richard Doe, alleges he was sexually assaulted in a restroom by Hastert in 1973 or 1974. The boy was 9 or 10 years old and in fourth grade at the time, according to the lawsuit. At a court hearing in a Yorkville courthouse Tuesday, a judge granted a motion allow Doe to remain anonymous.

The suit said Hastert forced his way into the stall with his genitals exposed and forcibly sodomized the boy. Several weeks later, Doe recognized Hastert while he was in at gym class at Yorkville Grade School, at which point Hastert took the crying boy into the hallway and asked him if he had ever told anyone about the abuse, according to the suit. The boy said he had not reported the rape. Hastert threatened him if he ever disclosed it, falsely claiming his father was the sheriff, the suit states.

The civil lawsuit accuses Hastert of battery, false imprisonment and both negligent and intentional infliction of emotional distress. It also names Yorkville School District 115 as a "respondent," which means the district could become a defendant in the suit depending on the outcome of discovery, according to Kendall County Now. According to his lawsuit, Doe reported the abuse to the Kendall County State's Attorney in 1984 or 1985 and was threatened with being charged himself for damaging the good name of Hastert, whose political career was just taking off at the time. (Get Patch real-time email alerts for the latest news for Yorkville — or your town. And iPhone users: Check out Patch's new app.)

The suit claims then-prosecutor Dallas Ingemunson ignored the report, essentially participating in a cover up of Hastert's rape. Ingemunson told the Kendall County Record the allegations are false and said has never met Hastert's latest accuser. He would have known if any such report had been brought to his office, he told Politico.

Hastert also faces a separate $1.8 million lawsuit by an anonymous victim and former Yorkville student. That suit alleges that he sexually assaulted a 14-year-old boy, identified as James Doe, at wrestling camp.

Hastert is currently serving a 15-month sentence for a conviction for financial violations related to an agreement to pay millions in "hush money" to another student who accused him of abuse. At his sentencing last April, a federal judge called him a "serial child molester." He is scheduled to be released from federal prison in August, although he is eligible for release to a halfway house sooner.

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Photo: Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert leaves the Dirksen Federal Court House in a wheelchair after his sentencing on April 27, 2016 in Chicago, Illinois. Credit: Joshua Lott/Getty Images News/Getty Images