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San Bernardino Sun
By BILL BYRON and BRAD A. GREENBERG Staff Writers
Investigators believe a defrocked Catholic priest called Father Jesse has fled to Mexico to escape charges of sexually molesting two teenage altar boys in the 1980s.
Jesus Armando Dominguez, who once served as associate pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Chino, could not be found when Riverside County sheriff's deputies tried to execute a $500,000 arrest warrant that was issued Tuesday morning.
When the incidents occurred, Dominguez, 55, was a priest at Our Lady of Soledad Church in Coachella and St. James Church in Perris, Riverside County prosecutors said.
He last lived in Whittier. Dominguez is accused of oral copulation, sodomy and other sexual acts involving two boys in a period from the mid-1980s to 1989. The boys were around 14 and 17.
If found and convicted, Dominguez could face more than 43 years in prison.
Posted by kshaw at February 3, 2005 07:15 AM