WASHINGTON (DC)
WTOP
November 7, 2018
By Abigail Constantino
D.C. police have arrested a Catholic priest on charges of child sexual abuse.
Urbano Vazquez, 46, of Northeast D.C., was arrested Wednesday following allegations of sexual abuse. Vazquez has been the parochial vicar at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart Parish in Columbia Heights since 2014.
Police said in a news release that Vazquez had sexual contact with a child without permission in May 2015.
The victim was 13 years old at the time of the alleged abuse, and the suspect was 42 years old. She said in a statement to police that Vazquez placed his hand down the front of her shirt and onto her bare breast on two occasions.
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