PHILIPPINES
ABS-CBN
by Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News
Posted at 04/03/2012
MANILA, Philippines – A Filipino priest will face trial for child sex abuse in the United States after the Court of Appeals (CA) First Division upheld a lower court’s order for the priest’s extradition.
CA Associate Justice Amy Lazaro-Javier, in a 22-page ruling, said Fernando Laude Sayasaya should be extradited because the evidence against himon the alleged sexual offenses “met the standard of probable cause.”
Sayasaya allegedly committed “gross sexual imposition” on two 15-year-old boys on several occasions between July 1995 to August 1998, while he was assigned as a priest at the Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in West Fargo, North Dakota.
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