Fr. Rafael Escala
Ordained in Cuba. Expelled after the Castro revolution. Spent some time in the Dominican Republic, and ended up in the Miami area in 1977. In late 2011, a man notified the Archdiocese that he had been sexually abused by Escala in the late 1980s when he was 16. Escala caught him stealing from the collection plate, threatened to tell the boy’s father but abused him instead. Escala died 1/27/2009. The claim was settled in 1/2013.
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