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KATC
Wednesday was the third day of trial for former priest Mark Broussard, who is facing child molestation charges that date back to the 1980’s.
Broussard was living in Duson when he was arrested in 2012 on rape and sexual battery charges after a letter surfaced in late 2011, alleging that the former priest had sexually abused a Calcasieu Parish man as a child.
Wednesday morning, the prosecution was still calling witnesses for its case. A deacon with the Lake Charles Diocese took the stand to testify for the state.
The deacon presented Broussard’s personnel files from when he was with the diocese, including a letter Broussard wrote to his friends and family in 1994.
The letter was written two days before his resignation from the priesthood to tell his loved ones that he was leaving the church, “It is best for me and it is best for the Church,” read one line of the letter.
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