CALIFORNIA
Daily Mail (UK)
By Hannah Parry For Dailymail.com
A female churchgoer claims she was sexually assaulted by a former parish priest – and when she complained to the church was told ‘what man wouldn’t want a piece of a** every now and then?’
Dorothy Small, filed a lawsuit against Rev. Renerio Sabuga Jr., the Sacramento Catholic Diocese, and Holy Rosary priest Jonathan Molina, on Monday over the alleged assault and the church’s handling of it, the Sacramento Bee reports.
Her suit describes how Sabuga – known as Father Jong – became a close confidante after he joined Woodland’s Holy Rosary Catholic Church, California, in April 2014.
The 62-year-old said the priest began by inviting her along for bicycle rides and for dinner, but the relationship changed and he began pursuing her romantically, according to her lawsuit.
The situation escalated until February 17, 2015, when she claims the priest ‘cornered (Small) in her bedroom and sexually assaulted’ her.
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