A Roman Catholic priest is facing five felony counts of child molestation and was removed from his Downey parish after being arrested by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies, records and officials said. Father Jaime Arriaga, 41, remains in the Los…[Continue Reading...]
Jersey's Royal Court has found a former Catholic priest guilty on three counts of gross indecency with a child. Piotr Antoni Glas, 61, committed his crimes on multiple occasions against a teenage boy between 2004 and 2007. There were cries…[Continue Reading...]
An 80-year-old former priest of the Diocese of Wilmington and a 57-year-old ex-teacher in local Catholic schools have been charged with sexual abuse of a minor in the mid-1990s, the Delaware attorney general announced in a news release March 17.…[Continue Reading...]
PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor said Tuesday it cannot investigate allegations by several women who said they were sexually assaulted or harassed by Abbé Pierre, a nationally revered priest and humanitarian crusader who died in 2007. The allegations against…[Continue Reading...]
PARIS (AP) — The French Catholic Church has formally requested that prosecutors initiate an investigation into Abbé Pierre, a once-revered priest and humanitarian icon who died in 2007, following new revelations of sexual violence. Archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort, president of…[Continue Reading...]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A priest who formerly worked in Louisville is facing charges of child sex abuse, and this isn't the first time he's been accused. Joseph Mouser, 86, was removed from public ministry in 2002 and is facing…[Continue Reading...]
A serial child molester and retired Roman Catholic priest on Wednesday declined an opportunity to apologize to his victims after pleading guilty to child rape earlier in December. Lawrence Hecker’s silence came on Wednesday in New Orleans’s state criminal courthouse…[Continue Reading...]
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...]
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