Fr. Fernando Lopez Lopez
From Colombia. Sent from Rome, Italy to St. Thomas the Apostle parish in Los Angeles in 2001. Arrested in 2004 for abuse of a minor. Other victims found. Convicted in 2005. Conviction/prison sentence overturned 4/06 by appeals court. In 1/08 the CA Supreme Court overturned the appeals court decision and returned case to the court which upheld conviction 4/08. CA Supreme Court refused to hear appeal. Suit filed by 20-year-old man in 5/09. Lopez was deported, per CA Sex Offender Registry. News reports 6/11 say he was convicted in Rome in 2000. The Los Angeles list of accused in 12/18 shows Lopez to have been laicized.
- Desert Sun (CA) / AP 09.29.04
- ABC News 04.14.06
- NY Times (AP) 01.28.08
- KNBC 04.04.08
- Press Telegram 07.10.08
- LA Times 05.07.09
- SNAP Fact Sheet 06.09.10
- PR Newswire 06.28.11
- Sacramento Bee 06.29.11
- LA Times 06.29.11
- KTLA 06.29.11
- KPCC 07.01.11
- FishBowlLA 07.01.11
- Archdiocese of Los Angeles List 12.06.18
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