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MI Catholic Priest Gets One Year On Child Sex Charges

Michigan Live reports: A former Flint-area Catholic priest convicted of the attempted sexual abuse of a 5-year-old boy in the late 1980s, was sentenced Tuesday to a year in jail and probation. Vincent DeLorenzo, 84, was sentenced June 13 by Genesee County Circuit Court Judge Brian S. Pickell after previously pleading guilty to a single count of attempted first-degree criminal …

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AK Church Leader Charged With 17 Child Sex Felonies

Via press release from the Alaska State Troopers: On Wednesday, May 24, 2023, the Alaska State Troopers received a report of sexual abuse of a minor. Investigation revealed that Dwight Chris John, age 71 of Ketchikan, sexually assaulted a minor at different times, over a period of seven years. The sexual assaults occurred in Ketchikan and Prince of Wales Island. …

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Iowa Christian Missionary Gets 25 Years For Child Sex

First, a reminder from my April 2023 report: It took a Webster County jury just under two and a half hours late Friday afternoon to convict a former Christian missionary of sexual abuse. Jordan Dee Andrew Webb, 30, of Fort Dodge, was found guilty of one count of second-degree sexual abuse with persons under the age of 12, a Class …

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NYC Priest Pleads No Contest To Child Sex Charges

Staten Island Advance reports: A former Staten Island priest already accused in a lawsuit of sexually abusing a minor in New York pleaded no contest to several charges in Pennsylvania Friday in connection with abuse allegations more than a decade ago. Rev. James Garisto, 74, pleaded no contest to charges of corruption of a minor and indecent assault after a …

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CA Youth Pastor Sentenced To 12 Years For Child Sex

The Modesto Bee reports: A Modesto man who stepped down from his role as a church youth leader a month before his arrest has pleaded guilty to molesting a family member. Michael Sasser, 41, was arrested in April on suspicion of three counts of child molestation for acts that occurred during a period of months in 2022. On Wednesday, he …

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RI Republican Charged With Child Molestation Weeks After DUI Arrest Involving Crack And Fentanyl [VIDEO]

The Providence Journal reports: Authorities held a 41-year-old former Cranston councilman without bail on Thursday after he was charged with multiple counts of child molestation. A complaint filed by the legal guardian of a 12-year-old girl led to a month-long investigation and Thursday morning’s arrest of Matthew Reilly in North Kingstown, said Cranston police Chief Michael J. Winquist. This was …

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Defrocked Catholic Priest Busted On Child Sex Charges

The Associated Press reports: A defrocked Canadian priest and convicted sex offender is facing eight new criminal charges for past sexual assaults he allegedly committed while living in northern Canada, authorities said Wednesday. Iqaluit Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Eric Dejaeger, 76, was arrested on a Canada-wide warrant in Kingston, Ontario, where he was living. Police said he will be …

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VA Catholic Priest Gets Six Years On Child Sex Charges

Washington DC’s CBS affiliate reports: A former Loudoun County Catholic priest has been sentenced to eight years in prison for the sexual abuse of a 14-year-old child. Police say the abuse occurred in 1985 when Scott Asalone, now 66, was 29 and the victim was 14. In addition to his sentence, Asalone is required to register as a sex offender …

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OH Pastor Sentenced To Six Years On Child Sex Charges

Toledo’s ABC affiliate reports: A former Monroe pastor was sentenced Monday after he was convicted of sex crimes. Judge Bruce Winters of Ottawa County sentenced Robert Auxter to six years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of Gross Sexual Imposition, which are third-degree felonies, in April. Auxter is required to register as a tier 2 sex offender. Court …

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Christian College Leader Arrested On Child Sex Charges

The Roys Report reports: Daniel Savala, who’s accused of sexually abusing multiple men in the Assemblies of God’s Chi Alpha Campus Ministries, has been arrested in Houston on sex abuse charges involving minors. On Friday morning, Savala, 67, was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Lone Star Fugitive Task Force at his residence in downtown Houston and booked at the Fort …

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Spanish Catholic Church Names 728 Pedophile Priests

Reuters reports: An investigation by the Spanish Catholic Church into child sexual abuse by members of the clergy and non-clerical staff has so far identified 728 alleged abusers and 927 victims since the 1940s, according to its first report. “We acknowledge the harm caused,” said Jose Gabriel Vera [photo], the spokesman for the Spanish Bishops’ Conference. “We want to help …

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Mounties Arrest Catholic Priest On Child Sex Charges

The CBC reports: A Roman Catholic priest has been arrested in connection with the sexual assault of an eight-year-old girl in Little Grand Rapids First Nation, Manitoba RCMP say. Arul Savari, 48, is charged with sexual assault, sexual interference, sexual exploitation of a young person, luring a child and forcible confinement. He remains in custody, Supt. Scott McMurchy, Manitoba acting …

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Illinois AG: 450 Catholic Priests Molested 2000 Children

The New York Times reports: More than 450 credibly accused child sex abusers have ministered in the Catholic Church in Illinois over almost seven decades, the office of the state’s attorney general, Kwame Raoul, said Tuesday in an investigative report. That is more than four times the number that the church had publicly disclosed before 2018, when the state began …

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French Catholic Priests Issued Scannable ID Cards So People Can Tell Which Ones Are Accused Pedophiles

France 24 reports: Old sins cast long shadows. After centuries of secrecy, the French Bishop’s Conference (CEF) has decided it will be more transparent by equipping priests, bishops and deacons with digital, scannable identification cards. No bigger than a bankcard, the IDs will certify whether or not its holder is fit to perform a sermon or has the right to …

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Texas Youth Pastor Arrested On Child Sex Charges

Click2Houston reports: A former employee of a Magnolia church is now the center of an investigation after he reportedly turned himself in and confessed to ‘inappropriate behavior with adolescents’ during his time at the ministry. Court documents state that Michael Anthony Romero was charged with indecency of a child involving sexual contact.  He also said that he had previously touched …

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Ohio Catholic Priest Found Guilty On Child Sex Charges

The Mansfield News Journal reports: Guilty on all five counts was the verdict Friday in the federal sex-trafficking trial of the Rev. Michael Jude Zacharias, a Roman Catholic priest who has led parishes in Mansfield and Fremont. The jury’s decision was announced a little before 5 p.m. Friday. Zacharias, 56, was found guilty of all five counts of sex trafficking, …

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Oakland Diocese Files For Bankruptcy Over Abuse Suits

San Francisco’s ABC affiliate reports: The Diocese of Oakland has announced it is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in light of over 330 lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse. In a press release, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Oakland says that the lawsuits have come after a new California statute allows claims that have expired to be filed. RCBO says that …

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Baltimore Priest Resigns From College Hospital Board After Being Named In Archdiocese’s Sex Abuse Coverup

The Baltimore Sun reports: A Catholic priest resigned from his position on the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center’s board of directors after The Baltimore Sun revealed his role in helping to cover-up child sexual abuse within the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Monsignor Richard Woy, a longtime board member at the Towson hospital, delivered his resignation letter Saturday to Board …

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Florida Pastor Sentenced To Life For Child Molestation

The Sarasota Herald Tribune reports: A Sarasota pastor was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday after he was arrested in July 2019 when the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office received a report that he’d sexually abused a 6-year-old child, according to a news release in the case. Twelfth Judicial Circuit State Attorney Ed Brodsky announced Bicente Velasquez Morales, 47, was convicted …

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Archbishop: Very Sorry About All Those Child Rapists

Via press release from the Archbishop of Baltimore: Today’s report from the Maryland Attorney General is first and foremost a sad and painful reminder of the tremendous harm caused to innocent children and young people by some ministers of the Church. The detailed accounts of abuse are shocking and soul searing. It is difficult for most to imagine that such …

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