LOS ANGELES (CA)
California Report
[with audio]
Reporter: Steven Cuevas
The Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles agreed this week to pay out $13 million to more than a dozen victims of clergy sex abuse. Attorneys for the victims claim Los Angeles and Mexican church leaders also conspired to shield one notorious pedophile priest from authorities.
Eleven of the 17 cases settled by the L.A. Archdiocese involve former Mexican priest Nicolas Aguilar Rivera. He is believed to have molested more than two dozen children in the late 1980s.
Plaintiffs’ attorney Anthony De Marco says the priest fled to his native Mexico shortly after the abuse came to light.
“He’s been on the most wanted list in the state of Puebla for over 20 years,” said De Marco at a news conference Wednesday in Los Angeles.
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