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Lodi News-Sentinel
Posted: Friday, July 12, 2013
By Ross Farrow/News-Sentinel Staff Writer
A priest who served on a temporary basis in Lodi has been held to trial on two misdemeanor charges in Yuba City. A trial readiness conference is scheduled for Aug. 16.
Father Julio Cesar Guarin-Sosa, 43, was arrested on March 10 after a 16-year-old girl in Yuba City told authorities that Guarin-Sosa sexually abused her while he visited her family at their residence.
Guarin-Sosa was visiting Lodi’s St. Anne’s Catholic Church while filling in for his vacationing brother, Father Mario Guarin, when he was arrested in Yuba City. Stockton Diocese Bishop Stephen Blaire removed Guarin-Sosa as a priest within the diocese as soon as he was arrested.
Guarin-Sosa, a native of Colombia, faces two misdemeanor charges — touching an intimate part of another person against her will, and annoying or molesting a person under 18 years of age, Sutter County Superior Court records show.
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