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  Retired O.C. Priest Charged with Molesting Boy

Los Angeles Times
July 21, 2009

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/07/retired-oc-priest-charged-with-molesting-boy-.html

A retired Roman Catholic priest from Orange County who escaped prosecution six years ago on suspicion of molesting a teenage boy has been charged with allegedly molesting another boy in the 1990s.

Denis Lyons, 75, of Seal Beach, was arrested Monday afternoon while playing cards at a community center near his home in the Leisure World retirement community, prosecutors said today.

Lyons faces four felony counts of lewd acts on a child younger than 14 and a sentencing enhancement for substantial sexual conduct with a child, which would make him eligible for a mandatory prison sentence. According to prosecutors, the abuse happened between 1992 and 1995 while Lyons was at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Costa Mesa.

 
 

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