BAKERSFIELD (CA)
KBAK/KBFX/Eyewitness News
March 4, 2019
By Emma Goss
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno, which includes 87 parishes spanning across the Central Valley, has hired former FBI Executive Assistant Director Kathleen McChesney to review and identify past offenses of sexual misconduct.
Fr. Miguel Flores’s case from 2002 being reopened by the diocese is entirely independent of the review being conducted, but he is one of 11 priests in the Diocese of Fresno who have been publicly accused of sexual misconduct, according to Bishop Accountability, an online database.
Bishop Armando Ochoa, D.D., said at a news conference last month that “although it is labor intensive, it is essential that the current administration is fully aware of any record of sexual abuse, no matter how much time has passed.”
Among the 11 publicly accused priests identified in the online database, five have ties to Kern County.
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