ALBUQUERQUE (NM)
KOB 4
February 5, 2020
By Chris Ramirez
A former New Mexico Catholic priest who was acquitted of child rape is now walking free, but some victims feel that justice was not served.
Isaac Casados of Española was one of those people hanging on to hope that Marvin Archuleta would be found guilty. Casados said he suffered abuse at the hands of Archuleta in the early 1990s when he was an altar boy at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Santa Cruz.
“He would touch you on the chest, then on the leg, then he would brush his hands on your buttocks and it was though he was testing you—grooming you as to what comes next,” he said.
Casados said light touches evolved into full-on sexual assault.
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