SACRAMENTO (CA)
The Record Searchlight
By Jim Schultz
Thursday, June 7, 2012
SACRAMENTO — A trio representing a network of people sexually abused by priests staged a quiet demonstration Thursday outside the Sacramento Roman Catholic Diocese headquarters in an effort to convince church leaders to make public a suspended Redding priest’s reported confession to a church-paid investigator that he molested a teenage girl.
The Rev. Uriel Ojeda, who is charged with seven felony counts of child molestation, is scheduled for a preliminary hearing today in Sacramento County Superior Court.
Joelle Casteix, western regional director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), said she and two others staged the small demonstration and were able to deliver a letter to a spokesman for Bishop James Soto asking him to make Ojeda’s alleged confession public.
Casteix said in a telephone conversation she and others in her group decided to hold the demonstration after growing alarmed at the number of Ojeda’s vocal supporters who have been attending his court hearings and holding prayer vigils since his arrest last year.
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