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By: David Shepherd
Updated: June 8, 2012
OWENSBORO – (UPDATED 8:31 P.M.) — A former priest at Blessed Mother Catholic Church in Owensboro was arrested Friday morning after a grand jury indicted him on charges of sodomy and sexual abuse on a child under the age of 12, according to city police.
72-year-old Louis Piskula of Owensboro is in the Daviess County Jail on those charges.
This is not the first time Blessed Mother Church has drawn fire. Last year a man committed suicide in the church’s parking lot claiming he had been a victim of sexual abuse by a priest there. No charges were filed in that case but this new incident puts the church in the spotlight once again.
For Owensboro native, Aaron Layson, the thought of a priest molesting a child in his neighborhood is shocking.
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