PUERTO RICO
Crux
Wallice J. de la Vega
July 17, 2016
CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico – A former priest from the Diocese of Mayaguez in Puerto Rico, who originally faced two felony charges of improper sexual behavior, was sentenced on one of those charges July 14.
Then-Father Floyd McCoy Jordan, 65, served as vicar of the Basilica of Our Lady of Montserrat in Hormigueros at the time of the complaint.
“McCoy Jordan was sentenced to 15 years in prison after being unanimously found guilty by a jury last June for committing lewd acts against a 14-year-old minor from 2013-2014 in the municipality of Hormigueros,” read a June 14 press release from the Puerto Rico Department of Justice.
The original second charge, reportedly related to having “improperly touched private parts” of a 19-year-old, was dismissed at the March preliminary hearing.
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