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  No Sex Assault Charges Filed against Deltona Pastor

News Journal [Deltona, FL]
June 1, 2007

http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Local/newWEST01060107.htm

A Deltona pastor and a priest-in-training will not face formal charges in an alleged sexual battery case, the State Attorney's Office said Thursday.

Spokeswoman Linda Pruitt cited insufficient evidence as the reason not to file charges.

According to a complaint filed in October with the Volusia County Sheriff's Office, the Rev. Carlos Bedoya, 44, of St. Clare Catholic Church, invited a 35-year-old man to his home on church grounds to have lunch and "cocktails." He proceeded to restrain the man while David Estrada, a 24-year-old priest-in-training, performed oral sex on the man, the complaint states.

No one was arrested or charged in the case, which was turned over to the State Attorney's Office for review.

 
 

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