Fr. Efrain Rozo Rincon
Confessed under oath in 2/2006 to sexually abusing his nephew and showing him pornography in 1967-1969 while working in a Los Angeles parish and studying at Loyola Marymount. Also confessed to fondling a 14-year-old seminarian in Colombia previously. When the taped confession was broadcast on 9/28/2006 in Bogota, the seminarian claimed that Rozo had raped him, and that other priests and a bishop had abused him too. A Colombian church tribunal cleared Rozo on canonical statute of limitations grounds on 7/23/2007, commending his youth apostolate.
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