PRIEST PLEADS GUILTY TO GROPING WOMAN, GETS 3 YEARS PROBATION

SAN DIEGO (CA)
U-T San Diego

Written by
Greg Moran

SAN DIEGO — A Roman Catholic priest was sentenced to three years of probation Friday by a San Diego Superior Court judge after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor battery charge for groping a woman who was visiting him in December.

Jose Alexis Davila, 53, was also ordered to complete 150 hours of community service and have no contact with the 20-year-old victim.

He will also have to pay a fine of $200.

He is a priest at St. Jude’s Shrine of the West in San Diego’s Southcrest neighborhood.

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