"No Sin" - Former New Orleans Priest Says He Befriended Accuser, Denies Sex Abuse

By David Hammer
WWL-TV
January 8, 2021

https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/investigations/david-hammer/losing-faith-accused-priest-sits-down-with-wwl-tv-in-holland-to-respond-to-church-investigation/289-b806913a-b09d-4ae0-9b53-3be1e5071fea

In a remarkably candid interview from his native Holland, Father Joseph de Water took questions from WWL-TV about accusations that he abused a young boy years ago.

Faced with a formal church investigation into allegations that he sexually abused a minor in the mid-1970s, Father Joseph deWater is denying wrongdoing and suggests his accuser should not “dwell on things when he was a young boy.”

DeWater, who capped a 35-year career in the New Orleans area as a pastor, coach and educator by having a Catholic school gymnasium named for him in 2003, granted WWL-TV an extensive interview at his home in the village of Voorhout, Netherlands, about 35 minutes south of the Dutch capital of Amsterdam.