FARGO (ND)
Valley News
December 16, 2017
A former Fargo priest charged with child sexual abuse in Cass County has been arrested in the Philippines and extradited to the United States.
The charges, filed against Fernando Laude Sayasaya in Cass County District Court in December 2002, allege the offenses took place between July 1995 and June 1997 for one victim, and June 1997 through August 1998 for another victim.
Sayasaya, who served as a priest in the Fargo Diocese from 1995 to August 1998, was removed from priestly ministry after allegations of abuse were reported.
A federal indictment was returned against Sayasaya for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution on Jan. 7, 2003, when he failed to return to the United States following a visit to the Philippines in 1998.
Sayasaya was ordered extradited by a court in the Philippines on Dec. 28, 2010, and appealed that order.
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