LOS ANGELES (CA)
Southwest Riverside News Network
By City News Service, on February 3, 2013
A former priest who was a suspected child molester has been dismissed from his new job at the Los Angeles Unified School District, it was reported today.
The Los Angeles Times said the defrocked priest, Joseph Pina, had worked as late as Saturday as a daily-hire event organizer for the facilities division of the LAUSD.
Pina, 66, reportedly organized the ribbon-cutting for a new LAUSD education center in Bell on Saturday, just two days after his name surfaced in the files of 122 church priests who may have sexually abused children over past decades.
Pina had retired from a full-time job last year but was working as a temporary hire, the newspaper reported on its web site.
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