CALIFORNIA
Orange County Weekly
By Gustavo Arellano
Mon., Mar. 18 2013
We have long covered the destruction wrought by Eleuterio Ramos, the worst-ever pedophile priest in the history of the Diocese of Orange. But we’ve only occasionally discussed the second-worst: Siegfried Widera, who molested at least nine children and most likely many more.
And now, a horrifying prospect has emerged: Widera and Ramos probably molested together, or at the very least coordinated, because not only did they know of each other, but they were good friends.
I first became aware of this in a comment left on my latest exposé of former Bishop Tod D. Brown, left by an eyewitness who saw this between 1982 and 1984.
“They used to sit with my friends’ grandparents that ran the sausage booth and get drunk,” at St. Justin Martyr in Anaheim, according to the commenter. “Even after Widera ‘was removed’ from St. Justin, he still was there for special events and shit just to rape kids after school. No one stopped Widera from abusing.”
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