DC Priest Found Guilty for Sexually Abusing Two Young Girls

WASHINGTON D.C.
Channel 4 TV

August 15, 2019

The Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing two children of his Washington, D.C., parish has been found guilty.

Urbano Vazquez was convicted Thursday on four felony counts of child sexual abuse.

Vazquez groped a 9-year-old girl and 13-year-old girl in 2016, two years after he was ordained as a priest in the Capuchin Franciscan religious order.

He denied ever touching the girls, and his lawyer said the allegations were fabricated and lacked common sense.

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