LOS ANGELES (CA)
The Worthy Adversary
Posted by Joelle Casteix on May 14, 2013
Let me get this straight:
Lawyers for the Archdiocese of LA want six sex abuse and cover-up lawsuits against one of its former priests, Nicholas Aguilar Rivera, tossed out of court.
Even though, according to the Associated Press:
The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office in 1988 filed 19 felony counts against Aguilar Rivera,
“[The Archdiocese] has no doubt these children were his victims” (Church lawyer J. Michael Hennigan)
Mahony gave the priest permission to work for one year in the Los Angeles archdiocese after the Mexican cleric had been severely beaten at his parish in Tehuacan, in Puebla State … Police found blood, hair and broken glass at the parish house and interviewed witnesses who said young men from many surrounding villages visited the priest in his bedroom and slept there frequently, and
Aguilar Rivera’s bishop, Norberto Rivera, wrote a letter to Mahony to tell him there had been “several accusations of homosexuality against the priest” that had not been proven, but were believed to be the cause of the attack.
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