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2 Accused in this Diocese

Fr. Joseph Angeli

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Ordained: 1942
Status: Sued

Died: 5/5/1993
Diocese: Archdiocese of Boston MA

From Italy. Assigned in Boston MA in 1959 after 27 years in South America, in the Diocese of Tacna, Peru. Transferred to the San Antonio archdiocese in 1960, was in the Diocese of El Paso by 1965, then the Las Cruces diocese when it was created in 1982. Died 5/4/1993. Included on a list of accused priests and religious posted by the Law Offices of Mitchell Garabedian 01/19/2011. Per Garabedian, at least one claim settled with the Boston Archdiocese. Omitted from the 2011 Boston AD database because he was a "visiting priest." In 12/2015 a woman stated publicly that she was abused as a minor in the early 1960s in Hondo, TX by Angeli; she called on the San Antonio archdiocese to verify her allegations and settle her claim. On the San Antonio archdiocese's list 1/31/2019. On Las Cruces diocese's list 6/24/2019. Accused in a lawsuit filed in 7/2024 of sexually abusing an altar boy, age 10, multiple times around 1980. The boy was from Tortugas.

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Seminarian Juan Carlos González Herrera

Status: Convicted

Diocese: Diocese of Tacna y Moquegua, Peru

Colombian. On May 4, 2002 Frecuencia Latina reported that in 1997, González raped a 9-year-old boy at San Martin de Porres School in Tacna. González worked at the school. The boy told his parents, and González was arrested. He was released after the court decided that there was insufficient evidence. Six months later González was again arrested, this time for the rape of a 13-year-old boy at an abandoned property that belonged to the Diocese. The boy and another had been picked up off of the street by the seminarian, who offered them gifts, took them to where he was sleeping and told them both to take off their clothes. González was convicted, and sentenced in January 1999 to 5 years in prison and ordered to pay 6,000 soles to his victims. His sentence was soon changed to partial liberty and González fled the country. He also had paid his victims only 10 soles. The boys' attorney reportedly stated that the seminarian's sentence was lenient due to pressure from the Church, in particular by Bishop José Hugo Garaycoa Hawkins, who allegedly said that the attorney "would be excommunicated and barred from entering any Catholic church in Tacna" if he continued with the prosecution.

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Seminarista Colombiano violó a dos niños y huyó del país con ayuda de la iglesia Católica de Tacna, Frecuencia Latina, 05.04.2002
Reporte para SNAP de los Casos Publicados en la Prensa Sobre Abusos Sexuales Relígíosos en Peru, Años 2000 Al 2012, by Héctor Guillén Tamayo, presented at SNAP’s 2012 Annual Conference, Chicago IL, U.S
Resumen del caso y artículos de prensa sobre el seminarista González Herrera, Informe Guillén, 2012

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