(Belleville, IL) — A Belleville-area priest is going public with his claim that the Belleville Diocese has not responded adequately to his repeated complaints that a priest sexually abused him when he was a teenager. The “Post-Dispatch” reports that Reverend Steven Poole, now 48, says the diocese didn’t take steps to isolate the priest he accuses, Reverend Gene Kreher, from having access to other children. Kreher, now 78, denies his relationship with Poole was sexual and the diocese says they and state authorities reviewed Poole’s claims on several occasions.