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Anthony Odiong está acusado de abusar sexualmente de tres feligresas espiritualmente vulnerables en Waco. Se están llevando a cabo planes para que la arquidiócesis católica romana de Nueva Orleans retire el nombre de un sacerdote de una capilla que él ayudó a construir en las afueras de la ciudad, mientras se avecina un juicio penal en Texas contra el clérigo por cargos de que abusó sexualmente de tres feligresas espiritualmente vulnerables allí, según supo The Guardian. Según informes, Anthony Odiong había recaudado 600.000 dólares para construir y luego inaugurar la Capilla de Sanación de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe en Luling, Luisiana, en 2020, cuando era párroco de una iglesia adyacente, años antes de que las autoridades lo acusaran penalmente en Texas, donde también había ejercido anteriormente. Desde entonces, su nombre ha aparecido en varias inscripciones fuera de la capilla y en la estructura misma, incluso mientras el caso penal en su contra avanzaba hacia el juicio. Sigue leyendo...

Prosecutors say Anthony Odiong exploited his parishioners’ emotional dependency to engage in sexual conduct with themA Roman Catholic priest with ties to Texas and south-east Louisiana and criminally charged with abusing his position as a clergyman to pursue sex with three spiritually vulnerable female congregants faces being taken to trial on all of those cases at once.The Texas district attorney’s office prosecuting Anthony Odiong filed a motion seeking to consolidate the three cases in late March, ahead of a trial date that the Guardian understands has tentatively been set for 4 May. Prepared by McLennan county first assistant district attorney Ryan Calvert, the motion notes that Texas state law allows “a defendant [to] be prosecuted in a single criminal action” if the crimes alleged “are connected or … are the repeated commission of the same or similar offenses”. Continue reading...

Scott Peyton left the Lafayette, Louisiana, diocese after priest admitted to abusing his son and was excommunicated months laterA Louisiana man who resigned as a Roman Catholic deacon after a priest molested his son and then was excommunicated from the church entirely by his local bishop is asking global church leaders to inform him of the fate of his appeal against the prelate’s decision, something that was supposed to be resolved more than a year earlier.In a letter to the Vatican entity in charge of clerical discipline, a canon – or church – law attorney representing Scott Peyton asserts that his case is “nuanced and requires careful consideration”. “To the extent that the delay reflects such diligence, he is grateful,” said the letter to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), prepared by Dawn Eden Goldstein on 3 February and obtained recently by the Guardian. Continue reading...