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Pedophile Priest in Jail By Ted Oberg ABC 13 April 23, 2008 http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/in_focus&id=6100311 LAFAYETTE, LA (KTRK) — Gilbert Gauthe, the former priest and pedophile Eyewitness News tracked down in La Marque, is back in jail. As Eyewitness News first reported Monday night, Gauthe was unregistered as a sex offender. After an investigation, he registered. But Wednesday night, police say he broke the rules. Gauthe was picked up Wednesday afternoon at about 4:30 at Galveston Island State Park. He registered as a sex offender last week, and here's where the problem starts. Gauthe, a former priest and pedophile, admitted to abusing 39 children in Louisiana and another boy in Polk County here in Texas. He was living unregistered as a sex offender for years in La Marque, and a loophole in Texas law allowed him to do that. That loophole closed in 2005 and he should have registered after that. But once Eyewitness News started looking for him, he did. The whole idea of the registry is so that people know where he is. When those stories started airing on Channel 13, he left the home at which he told police he would be, but didn't tell them where he was going. That's a violation, and that's why he was picked up. His bond is $200,000 and the former priest who had been working as a charter bus driver doesn't have that kind of cash. He could be in jail for a while. He'll be in court Thursday morning, and then move to the Galveston County Jail. Police told Eyewitness News that Gauthe did not know where he was headed after Galveston State Park, which is also a violation of the registry. There is no indication he was trying to connect with any children at the park — just, in his words, trying to avoid media attention. |
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