CALIFORNIA
New York Daily News
BY DAVID KNOWLES / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 2013
Not all Catholic priests who abuse minors escape justice.
A California superior court judge sentenced Father Uriel Ojeda, 33, to eight years in state prison on Friday for molesting a teenage girl multiple times.
“My actions were those of a weak and sinful man,” Ojeda said in court.
Ojeda pleaded no contest to sneaking into the young girl’s bedroom at her parents’ Sacramento home on the night he was ordained and climbing into bed with her as she slept.
“You traumatized me,” the girl told him in a letter that was read in court by Deputy District Attorney Allison Dunham. “And you thought I would never tell anyone, didn’t you? But you thought wrong.”
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