WASHINGTON (DC)
NBC News 4 TV
November 7, 2018
By Gina Cook
A Catholic priest has been accused of abusing a child inside a church in Northwest D.C. and the archdiocese says it has removed another priest from the church for not taking proper actions in reporting the alleged abuse.
Urbano Vazquez, 46, was arrested Wednesday and charged with second-degree child sexual abuse. Vazquez has worked at Shrine of the Sacred Heart in D.C.’s Columbia Heights neighborhood since 2014, according to the Archdiocese of Washington.
A victim told police that Vazquez put his hand down her shirt and touched her breast two different times at Sacred Heart. She said the abuse happened in 2015, when she was 13.
“Since the initial claim to police, additional allegations against Father Vazquez were reported,” the Archdiocese of Washington said in a lengthy statement Wednesday night.
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