LOS ANGELES (CA)
Los Angeles Daily News
[documents via Jeff Anderson & Associates:
The Punitive Damages Motion Aguilar-Rivera
LA Documents 2-19-14
Los Angeles Archdiocese child sexual abuse timeline
Offender Bios – Aguilar-Rivera et al]
By Kelly Goff, Los Angeles Daily News
POSTED: 02/19/14
High-ranking members of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles were aware that a visiting Roman Catholic priest had been accused of molesting boys at two local parishes and gave him time to flee the country in 1988, attorneys for several of his alleged victims said Wednesday.
Eleven of the 26 boys allegedly abused by Father Nicolas Aguilar-Rivera during a nine-month stay in the United States are plaintiffs in a lawsuit that settled last week for $13 million on the eve of a civil trial.
According to the victims’ attorneys, church officials up to and including then-Archbishop Roger Mahony also actively tried to block police investigation into the accusations by withholding a list of names of altar boys at the church where Aguilar-Rivera was living. Twenty-five of the 26 boys who accused Aguilar-Rivera were later found to be altar boys.
Court and church documents related to the case — as well as Mahony’s first deposition since the abuse scandal unfolded — paint a picture of the shuffling of Aguilar-Rivera between two countries and several churches to evade a stream of abuse accusations.
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