NEW MEXICO
ABQ Journal
[Peter Garcia – Los Angeles archdiocese]
By Olivier Uyttebrouck / Journal Staff Writeron Wed, Feb 13, 2013
Monsignor Peter Garcia’s career as a pastor in Los Angeles ended in 1984 after families alleged that he had sexually abused boys as young as 7 in his parish.
But Garcia was later assigned to churches in Belen and Socorro from 1985-87, according to records made public as a result of a settlement between the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and victims of clergy abuse.
And in 1987, former Archbishop of Santa Fe Robert Sanchez helped decide that New Mexico pastors who supervised Garcia not be told about his history of sexual abuses, according to a 1987 letter.
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