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LOS ANGELES (AP) – A lawsuit alleges that Roman Catholic church officials in Los Angeles placed a priest who was a known child molester back into ministry in Santa Paula, where he abused two more young boys.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, details allegations that date back to the late 1980s and early 1990s, after the Rev. Carlos Rene Rodriguez had already been sent to out-of-state treatment for molesting a 16-year-old boy, church files state.
Rodriguez was convicted of molesting two other boys in 2004, years after the fact and was placed on the state’s sex offender registry upon his release.
He was defrocked in 1998 at his own request and now lives in Huntington Park.
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