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Joseph Pina
Donal O’Connor
Wallace Daley
Joseph Ryan
Joseph Sharpe
Sean Cronin
Six priests named in personnel files finally released by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles — after years of battle in the courts — served some time in Lynwood or South Gate.
By Mirna Alfonso
Joseph Pina was a 38-year-old priest when he met a 13-year-old girl at a Los Angeles Archdiocesan parish.
He began a “relationship” with her when she was 16 and became sexual with her when she was 17.
At the age of 19, in 1992, the woman broke off the so-called relationship and Pina went to his superiors, hurt that she had been harsh with him.
Under the vicarship of Cardinal Roger M. Mahony and then-Msgr. Thomas J. Curry — both of whom were disgraced this week — Pina saw counselors, participated in a residential Catholic treatment program, took 12-step sex addiction programs but by 1998, he was in the sex offenders unit of a hospital in Torrance.
There, he was diagnosed with “psychosexual disorder with addictive and exploitive features,” his file indicates.
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