{"id":554467,"date":"2026-01-30T17:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/554467\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T17:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:56:10","slug":"fired-catholic-school-teacher-charged-with-molesting-tutoring-student-also-charged-in-evergreen-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/554467\/","title":{"rendered":"Fired Catholic school teacher charged with molesting tutoring student also charged in Evergreen Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Catholic school teacher who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/former-catholic-school-teacher-brett-smith-charged-child-sexual-abuse-orland-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">due in court on charges of molesting a child he was tutoring<\/a> now faces additional charges in Evergreen Park.<\/p>\n<p>Brett Smith, who lives in Tinley Park, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/chicago-archdiocese-fires-teacher-child-molestation-allegations\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">fired by the Chicago Archdiocese<\/a> earlier this week after the uncovered past allegations of child molestation.<\/p>\n<p>Orland Park police said they began an investigation into Smith after parents hired him as a private tutor. He was using the name &#8220;BJ S. McAuliffe&#8221; at the time. When the parents received a bank payment request that listed a different name \u2013 Brett Smith \u2013 families grew concerned.<\/p>\n<p>Police said parents then discovered public reports from other states linking Smith to past allegations involving children, then contacted law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>After a thorough investigation, detectives said they established probable cause that Smith had sexual contact with a minor. Police are now asking anyone who believes they, or a child in their care, may have been a victim to contact law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Smith taught most recently as a substitute teacher at Queen of Martyrs School in Evergreen Park. Friday, Evergreen Park police said Smith is now charged in their jurisdiction with one count of battery. <\/p>\n<p>Police said a family from Queen of Martyrs reported a possible incident involving a child while Smith was at that school. Friday&#8217;s charges appear to stem from that report.<\/p>\n<p>Smith also worked at Pope John Paul II School in Chicago&#8217;s Brighton Park neighborhood and at St. Walter-St. Benedict school. <\/p>\n<p>Smith turned himself into police on the Orland Park charges Wednesday, and was formally charged Thursday. He is due in court in Bridgeview Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Catholic school teacher who is due in court on charges of molesting a child he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":554468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[213709,960,25089,155379,5386,1818,14704,22598],"class_list":{"0":"post-554467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-catholic-archdiocese-of-chicago","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-child-sex-abuse","11":"tag-evergreen-park","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-illinois","14":"tag-orland-park","15":"tag-teachers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115985343092322459","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}