SACRAMENTO (CA)
CBS Sacramento
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A Roman Catholic priest has been sentenced to eight years in prison for molesting a 13-year-old parishioner.
Rev. Uriel Ojeda pleaded no contest to molesting the girl in early July. As part of the plea deal, the district attorney dropped six of the seven molestation charges.
The 32-year-old priest has been a parochial vicar at Our Lady of Mercy parish in Redding since 2009, leading up to his arrest in 2011. Before that, he served at a parish in Woodland, where he met the young girl. She came forward to the church with the allegations in late November 2011.
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