Catholic Diocese responds after student’s parent arrested on child rape charges

MEMPHIS (TN)
WREG – News Channel 3

February 21, 2018

By Eryn Taylor and Nina Harrelson

[Includes text of diocese’s statement.]

The details are disturbing.

An arrest affidavit shows 31-year-old James “Trey” Bradshaw III admitted to inappropriately touching his then-girlfriend’s son repeatedly sometime between 2015 and 2016.

He also admitted to having the boy perform oral sex on him.

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Vince Higgins, with the Catholic Diocese of Memphis, confirms James Bradshaw was a parent volunteer coach of a kindergarten basketball team at Holy Rosary as recently as November.

Higgins says he was never alone with children and no additional allegations have surfaced.

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