New Child Sex Abuse Allegations Against 5 Former Priests Deemed Credible, Diocese Of Sacramento Says

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The Diocese of Sacramento added six caller allegations against 5 erstwhile priests to its list of clergy who faced accusations of kid intersexual abuse.

In a quality merchandise sent retired connected Tuesday, the diocese said though the priests were already connected the list, each six allegations are new. Those 5 priests were Gerardo Beltran Rico, William Feeser, Francisco Javier Garcia, William Hold and Uriel Ojeda.

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All of them were assigned by the diocese to areas successful Northern California including but not constricted to Sacramento, Woodland, Vacaville, Winters, Vallejo and Redding.

The diocese said the caller entries to the database resulted from an autarkic program—between September 2019 to this summer—where individuals were capable to get settlements for claims of maltreatment by priests, careless of erstwhile it happened.

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“This autarkic programme did what we prayed it would do,” Bishop Jaime Soto said successful the quality release. “First and foremost, it created a venue wherever victims of clergy maltreatment could travel guardant and question justness and healing for the symptom that was inflicted connected them by men who betrayed their trust. Second, it provided accusation that we are utilizing to guarantee that our reckoning of the past is arsenic thorough and transparent arsenic it needs to beryllium if we are to question God’s mercy.”

According to the diocese, Rico and Garcia stay fugitives, portion Feeser and clasp were listed arsenic deceased. Ojeda was dismissed from the clerical authorities successful 2016.

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“I proceed to commune and question atonement for the horrible sins of clergy intersexual abuse. Because the symptom suffered by victims is ongoing, my efforts to safeguard the young and susceptible – and to clasp accountable those who would betray the spot placed successful them – indispensable beryllium ongoing arsenic well,” Bishop Soto said. “I volition ever question to atone for these sins and to assistance the guiltless victim-survivors who person been truthful cruelly betrayed.”

CBS13 Staff