Fr. Jose Luis Urbina
From Mexico. Ordained for Sacramento. Pled guilty 1989 to committing lewd acts with a child under 14. Skipped bail and fled to Mexico before sentencing. Accused in 2003 lawsuit against Diocese and Urbina of sexual abuse of boy, age 9-17 in 1980s. Found working as a priest in Navojoa, Mexico in 2005. Mexico would not allow extradition to the U.S. Laicization announced 8/21/08. A 2008 civil suit dismissed 11/10 on SOL. On Sacramento diocese’s list 4/30/19. It notes allegations received 1989 and 2007, each of abuse of a boy in the 1980s. Warrant for arrest renewed in 2019.
- Sacremento Bee 07.01.03
- Dallas Morning News 03.16.05
- Sacramento Bee 03.18.05
- Appeal-Democrat 03.19.05
- Dallas Morning News 04.13.05
- CBS 13 05.07.07
- Sacramento Bee 03.15.08
- California Catholic Daily 03.21.08
- Sacramento Bee 08.21.08
- California Catholic Daily 08.22.08
- Sacramento Bee 11.11.10
- Decision in Doe v Bishop, The Leagle 11.12.10
- Chicago Tribune 03.12.11
- Diocese of Sacramento List 04.20.19
- ProPublica 03.06.20
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