JOHN DAY (OR)
KGW
By KRISTINA BRENNEMAN, kgw.com Staff
JOHN DAY, Ore. -- A Catholic priest will take over an Eastern Oregon parish April 3, two years after his career was in limbo over sexual abuse charges.
Father Richard Edelin has been assigned to serve at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church in John Day, Oregon, according to the church Web site.
However, a support group for clergy molestation victims, SNAP, is trying to block the appointment.
The Houston archdiocese paid a $5,000 settlement and sent a letter of apology in 1996 to a woman who alleged Edelin had groped and molested her as a teenager, according to a 2004 in the Houston Chronicle.