OREGON
The Oregonian
By Noelle Crombie, The Oregonian
A priest who knew the Rev. Angel Perez in his final year at Mount Angel Seminary said he never saw the 46-year-old show “any tendency toward children in an inappropriate way.”
“I am sitting here in absolute shock,” said Monsignor Richard Paperini, now the parish priest at Christ the King Catholic Church in Milwaukie. Paperini was president of the Mt. Angel Seminary in 2001. Perez was ordained the following year.
On Monday, Perez, now the parish priest at Saint Luke Catholic Church in Woodburn, was arrested after police responded to a complaint at about 1:30 a.m. Monday alleging inappropriate contact between the priest and a 12-year-old boy.
He faces accusations of sexual abuse, use of a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct and furnishing alcohol to a minor. Perez was booked into Marion County Jail Monday evening and remains held without bail. He is scheduled to be arraigned at 3 p.m. in Marion County Circuit Court, according to the jail.
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