NEW JERSEY
NJToday
STATE — The Roman Catholic Church defrocked two priests who molested children, one of whom admitted to accosting an 8-year-old boy in Elizabeth, according to a report in the Archdiocese of Newark’s online magazine Catholic Advocate.
Horacio Daniel Medina and Richard J. Mieliwocki were each removed from the priesthood for sexual abuse of minors, according to church officials.
A Vatican tribunal decided to oust the former pedophile priests after a lengthy process called laicization, which was approved by the Pope.
Medina was arrested in 2004 on charges of having oral sex with an 8-year-old boy in the sacristy of Blessed Sacrament Church in Elizabeth in mid-1999.
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