My Fox Houston
April 29, 2010
http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/local/100428-gilbert-gauthe-transient
[with video]
A former priest who is accused of molesting an estimated 100 children in Louisiana is allowed to be categorized as a transient -- one week after he was scheduled to move into a Santa Fe home.
Gilbert Gauthe, 64, walked out of the Galveston County jail on Friday and was supposed to live in Santa Fe, but FOX 26 News has learned that he no longer has a physical address.
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Whether or not Gauthe felt pressure to not establish residence in Santa Fe because of media attention or dissatisfacation from neighbors is unclear.
Gauthe was released from jail following a two-year sentence for failing to register as a sex offender in 2008 when he was arrested by La Marque police at a state park.
In 1985, Gauthe was convicted on 34 counts of child molestation and possession of child pornography in Louisiana, but was released from prison in less than ten years because of good behavior.
Ten months after his prison release, Gauthe was sentenced to seven years of probation after he was convicted of fondling a 3-year-old boy in Polk County in east Texas. The boy's mother refused to let her son take the witness stand against Gauthe.
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Some residents expressed concern at the prospect of Gauthe moving into a Santa Fe neighborhood, but his transient status in the Texas sex offender registry may
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