OREGON
The Oregonian
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian
A Salem boy told authorities that the Rev. Angel Armando Perez gave him a beer and touched his genitals when he was sleeping over at Perez’s house on an air mattress following a community church event Sunday night, according to court records released Tuesday.
A probable cause affidavit says the child, either age 11 or 12, awakened to find Perez touching him. The document says the priest had a cell phone in one hand, and the boy was awakened by flashes that he believed were from the cell phone’s camera.
Perez, the parish priest at Saint Luke Catholic Church in Woodburn, made his first appearance in Marion County Circuit Court Tuesday afternoon on allegations of sexual abuse, abuse of a child in the display of sexually-explicit conduct, furnishing alcohol to a minor and driving under the influence of intoxicants.
The boy told investigators that he had gone to a community church event party with his family, and planned to spend Sunday night at Rev. Perez’s house. Perez had asked the boy’s parents a few days earlier if he could take the boy to the mountains for a trip, the affidavit said.
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