SARATOGA (CA)
CBS 5
04/25/06 2:20 PDT
SAN JOSE (BCN)
A Saratoga priest who was arrested last month on suspicion of raping an Oregon woman he counseled for more than a year will not face criminal charges, the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office announced today.
The Rev. Randy Benas, 45, of the Sacred Heart Parish in Saratoga, was taken into custody March 30 after a 29-year-old woman accused him of raping her at a Motel 6 on Mathilda Avenue in Sunnyvale March 28.
"All I can really say is that there was not sufficient evidence to prove it without a reasonable doubt," Victoria Brown, the head of the sexual assault division at the district attorney's office, said today.