Anthony Odiong은 Waco에서 정신적으로 취약한 여성 신도 3명을 성학대한 혐의를 받고 있습니다.
텍사스에서 정신적으로 취약한 여성 신도 3명을 성학대한 혐의로 해당 성직자에 대한 형사 재판이 임박함에 따라, 뉴올리언스 로마 가톨릭 대교구는 그가 시 외곽에 건립을 도운 경당에서 신부의 이름을 삭제하기 위한 계획을 진행 중이라고 가디언이 확인했습니다. Anthony Odiong은 이전에 사목 활동을 하기도 했던 텍사스에서 당국에 의해 형사 기소되기 몇 년 전인 2020년, 루이지애나주 룰링의 인근 교회 주임 신부로 재직하며 60만 달러를 모금해 Our Lady of Guadalupe Healing Chapel을 건립하고 개관한 것으로 알려졌습니다. 그에 대한 형사 사건이 재판으로 진행되는 동안에도 그의 이름은 경당 외부의 다양한 비문과 구조물 자체에 계속해서 표시되어 왔습니다. 계속 읽기...
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...
