Sex Charge Dropped after Church Decides to Return Iowa Priest to Home Country

By Andrew J. Nelson
The World-Herald
September 24, 2016

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A charge of soliciting prostitution has been dropped against a southwest Iowa priest after the Catholic Church decided to return him to his home country of Ghana, according to a prosecutor and court documents.

Dominic Yamoah, now 41, was arrested in Fremont County on July 9; authorities accused him of offering to purchase the services of a confidential informant for a sex act.

The Diocese of Des Moines said in a statement after the arrest that Yamoah “very sincerely regrets his actions” and that it had suspended him from public ministry, according to the Associated Press. Yamoah, who was released on bail, had been a pastor of churches in Clarinda, Bedford and Villisca.