WASHINGTON D.C.
Channel 9 (WUSA-TV)
August 15, 2019
By Madisson Haynes, Eliana Block, Samantha Kubota
Vazquez was found guilty of inappropriately touching two underage girls inside the church between 2015-17
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WASHINGTON — Father Urbano Vazquez, a Catholic priest at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Northwest, D.C., was found guilty Thursday of three counts of second-degree child abuse and one count of misdemeanor child abuse, Vazquez’s lawyer Robert Bonsib confirmed to WUSA9.
Jury selection began August 5, and the trial wrapped up Thursday in D.C. Superior Court.
Vazquez was found guilty of inappropriately touching two underage girls inside the church between 2015 and 2017.
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