The National Catholic Reporter reports:
Fr. Armand D. Garcia appeared in a Philadelphia courtroom Oct. 23 to plead guilty to corruption of a minor and unlawful contact with a minor. He will be sentenced in January 2024. The abuse took place while Garcia was a parochial vicar at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Philadelphia from 2014-2017.
The priest had initially been charged with rape; photographing, filming and depicting on a computer sexual acts; sexual assault; and corruption of a minor.
According to the criminal docket, the first three charges were dropped, while Garcia entered a non-negotiated guilty plea for corruption of a minor and unlawful contact with a minor. The victim was was a 13-year-old student at the parish school when she met the priest.
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He’s only a “former priest” in that the archdiocese suspended him upon his arrest. He hasn’t been defrocked.
A Philadelphia priest has admitted to sexually abusing a teen girl who was once an altar server at his parish. https://t.co/1yxqUfGvIm
— NCR (@NCRonline) October 24, 2023
PINOY PRIEST ARRESTED FOR RAPING TEENAGER AND FILMING THE ACT
Filipino priest Rev. Armand D. Garcia, 49, was arrested March 5 in Pennsylvania on three counts of rape, corruption of a minor and sexual abuse of a minor, as well as recording a sex act.
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— ThinkingPinoy (@ThinkingPinoyPH) March 7, 2019