Sexual allegations against New Mexico priests continue to grow

NEW MEXICO
KRQE

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – More allegations of sexual abuse involving New Mexico priests have surfaced.

Three more lawsuits have been filed against the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. One of the cases names Friar Jason Figler.

He was accused of sexually abusing at least seventeen boys in New Mexico during the 1970’s. The archdiocese of Santa Fe paid millions of dollars to settle those cases. Sigler also served 9 years in a Michigan prison for molesting a child there.

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