Fr. Avdon Serratos
Diocese: Archdiocese of Los Angeles CA
A/k/a Audon Serratos Zepeda. Visiting priest from the Diocese of Colima, Mexico. Sexually abused a 15-year-old girl on 8/10/2003 during confession. Arrested, pleaded no contest. Sentenced in 2004 to a year in jail, five years’ probation and to register as a sex offender. The Archdiocese could not determine whether Serratos had been granted permission to minister within the L.A. archdiocese. Deported back to Mexico.(Sexual abuse of a minor triggers deportation for non-citizens.) In 2010, Serratos was serving at Lord of Mercy temple, Villa de Alvarez, Colima. Bishop Amezcua Melgoza maintained in a 2010 letter that Serratos was acquitted of charges in the U.S.
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