Shortly before a jury was supposed to be chosen for his trial on criminal charges of kidnapping and raping a boy in the mid-1970s, the self-acknowledged serial child molester and retired Roman Catholic priest Lawrence Hecker pleaded guilty on Tuesday…[Continue Reading...]
A Dallas priest is accused of inappropriately touching two children, police said Tuesday. Ricardo Reyes Mata, 34, a priest with the Catholic Diocese of Dallas, was arrested Monday on two counts of indecency with a child, Garland police said in…[Continue Reading...]
Archdiocese Cardinal Blase J. Cupich sent letters to the parishes of St. Josaphat and St. Paul of the Cross, saying Father Martin Nyberg is being investigated by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. Cupich said Nyberg "strenuously denies"…[Continue Reading...]
VATICAN CITY (AP) — A legendary French priest and a lifelong advocate of the homeless has been accused of committing acts that would amount to “sexual assault or sexual harassment,” his foundation said Wednesday, in the latest instance of a…[Continue Reading...]
A priest who was Poland’s main national organiser for World Youth Day (WYD) – a major global event for young people held by the Catholic church – has been charged with sexual abuse and placed in detention. Prosecutors in the…[Continue Reading...]
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A Brownsville priest was indicted on several child sex crimes, records show. Fernando Gonzalez Ortega, who was serving as a priest at St. Luke’s Catholic Church in Brownsville at the time of his arrest, was indicted…[Continue Reading...]
Police in Texas this week announced the arrest of a priest with the Diocese of Dallas over allegations of inappropriate contact with two minors. The Garland Police Department said on its Facebook page that officers had arrested Father Ricardo Mata…[Continue Reading...]
A former South Carolina priest will serve more than two decades behind bars after pleading guilty to child sex crimes, the federal government has announced. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina said in a press release…[Continue Reading...]
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A Brownsville priest was arrested on several trafficking and child sex-related charges, authorities announced. Fernando Gonzalez Ortega, 52, was arrested on charges of sexual performance by a child, sexual assault of a child, continuous sexual abuse…[Continue Reading...]
COLUMBIA — A former Charleston priest who pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a minor was sentenced to 21 years and 10 months in federal prison. Jaime Adolfo Gonzalez-Farias received the sentence Feb. 8, roughly six months after he confessed in…[Continue Reading...]
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