Posted on 09/25/2002 3:15:17 PM PDT by Aliska
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) _ A Roman Catholic priest allowed the so-called date-rape drug to be made in his church rectory, according to court records. The records also show that church officials sent the Rev. Jeffery Joseph Windy to drug rehabilitation. Windy, 31, of Sheffield, Ill., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to manufacture and distribute gamma hydroxybutyric acid, also known as GHB, on May 22. He will be sentenced on Oct. 25, along with five co-defendants, in federal court in Davenport. Windy has been suspended from his duties at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Sheffield, Ill., and St. Margaret Mary's in Wyanet, Ill. A 10-page document was inadvertently filed in U.S. District Court in Davenport on Windy's behalf Tuesday in response to the pre-sentence investigation, which isn't made public. A copy of the document was obtained by the Quad-City Times. U.S. District Judge Harold Vietor ordered the document sealed Wednesday morning. In the document, Windy's attorney, Doug Scovil, said the priest allowed co-defendant Timothy Shawn O'Brien to make the drug at the church rectory, the newspaper reported.
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