CALIFORNIA
New York Daily News
BY NICOLE HENSLEY
A priest caught with a hidden camera in a Sherwood, Ore., church fled to the Philippines to evade an arrest warrant signed last week, local reports said.
Rev. Ysrael Bien left the country in defiance of the Archdiocese of Portland’s orders to stay put while on administrative leave from the St. Francis Catholic Church.
“I didn’t expect him to disobey,” Archbishop Alexander Sample told the Oregonian.
A teenage boy had found a hidden camera disguised as an electrical outlet in a church bathroom and handed it over to Bien.
The ensuing drama has left parishioners not expecting the 34-year-old priest to return or ever be found.
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