FLORIDA
Orlando Sentinel
By David Harris, Orlando Sentinel
7:37 p.m. EDT, July 18, 2014
A Seminole County pastor was arrested Thursday for not reporting to law enforcement that a man was sexually abusing three girls, officials said.
Pastor Cesar Chin knew about the abuse for at least a year, but said nothing to authorities, according to the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office. Both the victims and the suspect confided in Chin, and he was acting as a counselor, deputies said.
“That’s a year that went by without us being able to go in there and stop this and to provide the victims services,” said Kim Cannaday, spokeswoman for the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office. “They were allowed to be re-victimized.”
The alleged abuser, Normail Reynoso Perez, is facing abuse charges. His wife, Irma Gallegos Torres, also is facing charges for not reporting the alleged abuse. She even walked in on it once, deputies said. …
David Clohessy, director of the St. Louis-based of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said he was “extremely disappointed” by Chin and Gallegos Torres.
“They did nothing [and] let an innocent child suffer needlessly. Shame on them,” he said in a statement.
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