SAN BERNARDINO (CA)
Daily Bulletin
By Brad A. Greenberg
Staff Writer
Tom Rodrigue fears for the children of San Bernardino County. Here he expects his brother, a defrocked Catholic priest and convicted child molester, to return after his release from prison.
That day is coming soon.
Edward Anthony "Tony" Rodrigue was sentenced in February 1998 to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old developmentally disabled boy in Highland. Rodrigue could be released as soon as January for good behavior, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
"He will always be a pedophile. I have no doubt that when he gets out he will recommit as sure as the sun will rise," Tom Rodrigue, 66, said Thursday by phone from his Reno, Nev., home.
Once a priest in Barstow, Loma Linda and Ontario, Tony Rodrigue this week confessed in court papers his sexual sins since the 1960s. His admissions were filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in support of the children who claim he abused them.