Sex-abuse Suit Filed against Former Santa Paula Priest

By Marjorie Hernandez
Ventura County Star
March 23, 2015

http://www.vcstar.com/news/local-news/santa-paula/sexabuse-suit-filed-against-former-santa-paula-priest_71416195

A lawsuit has been filed against the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and a former priest who allegedly molested two altar boys who were parishioners at a Santa Paula Catholic church.

The suit, filed Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court by two men now in their 30s, alleges former priest Carlos Rene Rodriguez sexually molested them between 1989 and 1991 when they were altar boys at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Santa Paula.

The two were 7 to 10 years old at the time, said their attorney, Anthony DeMarco. They now live in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, he said.

DeMarco said this suit is one of several filed against Rodriguez. DeMarco alleged the Los Angeles Archdiocese knew of Rodriguez’s history of molesting other children since the 1980s while he worked at a church in Arizona.