Retired Dutch priest, accused of abusing 2 New Orleans boys decades ago, denies wrongdoing

By David Hammer
WWL-TV
January 08, 2021

https://www.nola.com/news/article_16435b2a-5200-11eb-aaf1-b70de429cc9f.html

Faced with a formal church investigation into allegations that he sexually abused a New Orleans altar boy in the mid-1970s, the Rev. Father Joseph deWater denies wrongdoing and suggests his accuser should not “dwell on things when he was a young boy.”

DeWater, who capped a 35-year career in the New Orleans area as a pastor, coach and educator by having a Roman Catholic school gymnasium named for him in 2003, granted WWL television an extensive interview at his home in the village of Voorhout, Netherlands, about 35 minutes south of the Dutch capital of Amsterdam.