CALIFORNIA
ABC 30
July 13, 2005 — A North Valley church used it's newsletter to find victims of abuse by a priest already in prison.
The Merced County Sheriff's Department is asking for help in identifying local cases of abuse by Father Thomas Purcell.
Father Purcell worked at a Planada Church during the mid 1990's.
The investigation was sparked by a call from a man who says he was molested during a sleep-over at Sacred Hearth Catholic Church.