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	Information Sought on Ex-Yuma Priest Arrested in Spain By Sheryl Kornman Tucson Citizen [Arizona] June 7, 2007 http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/53949.php The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson on Wednesday renewed its request that anyone with information about the Rev. Jorge Washington Cordova Hernandez contact the Yuma police, diocesan spokesman Fred Allison said. Cordova faces 10 counts of child sexual abuse in Yuma. The 51-year-old priest, who is employed by a Catholic diocese in Ecuador, was arrested Sunday near Madrid by Spanish police. Authorities there are cooperating in efforts to extradite Cordova to Arizona. The FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Justice Department and the Arizona Attorney General's Office took part in the two-year hunt for him, along with the Tucson and Phoenix dioceses. In 2005, Cordova was indicted in the alleged abuse of two minors in Yuma, where he was St. Francis of Assisi Parish priest from 1988-91. Allison said the priest never worked in Tucson and stopped receiving income from its diocese in the early 1990s. Cordova left Yuma for Phoenix in 1991 and worked in the Diocese of Phoenix at Catholic Renewal Ministries, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Glendale in 1991 and at St. Augustine Parish in 1992-93. Anyone who believes he or she may have been harmed by the priest may get assistance under the diocese's Chapter 11 proceedings, which provide money for damages and for counseling to victims of abuse by employees of the Tucson Diocese. Sheryl Kornman: skornman@tucsoncitizen.com
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