Vanishing Dallas Priest's Alleged Sex Abuse Leaves a Church and City with Questions That May Never Be Answered

By David Tarrant and Julieta Chiquillo
Dallas News
September 2, 2018

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas/2018/09/02/vanishing-dallas-priests-alleged-sex-abuse-leaves-church-city-questions-may-never-answered

The disgraced priest Edmundo Paredes disappeared from Dallas six months ago.

He left behind a mystery much deeper than where he is today.

Paredes leaves questions about who he truly was, what he did to the people he was supposed to serve and what harm he caused, not only to his alleged victims but to a Catholic diocese in Dallas already stained by a sexual abuse scandal stretching back more than two decades.

The fear now is that the questions will never be fully and publicly answered. Police are not investigating the sexual abuse allegations that surfaced this year against the longtime pastor of St. Cecilia Catholic Church in north Oak Cliff. Paredes’ accusers are not talking — not to police and not to the media, anyway.