WASHINGTON (DC)
Washington Post
November 7, 2018
By Clarence Williams and Julie Zauzmer
D.C. police arrested a priest from a Northwest Washington Catholic Church on Wednesday on charges that he sexually abused a teenager at the parish in 2015, officials said.
Urbano Vazquez, 46, of Northeast Washington was charged with second-degree child sexual abuse in connection with an incident at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in May of that year.
According to a D.C. police report, a 13-year-old girl told police that Vasquez put his hand down her shirt on two occasions on her bare skin. Vazquez was identified as a “pastor of that church that abuse occurred at,” the police report said.
The Shrine of the Sacred Heart is located at 3211 Sacred Heart Way NW. Vasquez is identified on the church website as Fr. Urbano Vazquez, a parochial vicar.
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