NEW YORK
Newsday
The Rev. Augusto Cortez sought after being accused of molesting Hampton Bays girl, officials say
September 23, 2014
By ANDREW SMITH andrew.smith@newsday.com
Law enforcement officials are trying to find a Catholic priest — on probation for groping a Brooklyn girl — who disappeared after a Hampton Bays family accused him of molesting a 7-year-old girl.
The family, which had befriended the Rev. Augusto Cortez, 50, wants to know why he was allowed to act as a priest even though his order promised a Brooklyn court he wouldn’t after he was put on probation for molesting a 12-year-old girl there in 2008.
To the family’s horror, their decade-long relationship with Cortez ended in June when they say they found he had molested their 7-year-old daughter during a high school graduation party for their older daughter, and may have given the younger girl a sexually transmitted disease.
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