YAKIMA (WA)
KAPP
The Yakima diocese is responding to allegations of a abuse by a priest in the Moses Lake area in the 1970’s: The official release from the diocese is below:
The Diocese of Yakima has received credible allegations of abuse of a minor by a visiting priest from Mexico at the Catholic parish in Moses Lake, Wash. in the early 1970s. The Diocese is encouraging any other potential victims to come forward.
The alleged abuser, the late Rev. Hilario Ramírez, was invited to Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Moses Lake by a Hispanic family in the early 1970s. A member of the family had met him in Dilley, Texas where he had been a guest priest, and thought his ministry would be helpful in the Moses Lake parish.
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