SHREVEPORT (LA)
Shreveport Times
February 6, 2019
By Nick Wooten and Ashley Mott
Seventeen priests who served in north Louisiana were accused of sexually abusing minors before 1986. Nearly all of them had ties to the Shreveport-Bossier City area, according to a report released by the Diocese of Alexandria Wednesday.
Prior to 1986, the Diocese of Alexandria included the Diocese of Shreveport, but all files related to priests, living and deceased, stayed in Alexandria due to church protocol. No allegations of sexual misconduct of a minor by a bishop, priest or deacon was received in the Diocese of Shreveport since June 1986, said Rev. Peter B. Mangum, the Shreveport diocesan administrator.
The Shreveport diocese covers 16 north Louisiana parishes — Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, DeSoto, East Carroll, Jackson, Lincoln, Morehouse, Ouachita, Red River, Richland, Sabine, Union, Webster and West Carroll.
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