FLORIDA
WSVN
SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, Fla. (WSVN) — The Archdiocese of Miami is trying not to lose faith in one of its priests after more disturbing allegations were revealed against him.
Father Rolando Garcia from St. Agatha Catholic Church has been accused of sexually abusing three different boys in the 1980s.
A man has come forward to say one of his friends was abused by another priest, and said that Father Garcia paid the boy to cover it up. “I’m upset. This man is preaching to hundreds of people out there, and he’s wearing a mask … he abused me, and he’s continued to do it to other children,” said the victim only identified as “John Doe.”
The victim said, “He’s was paying me to keep quiet when Christobal de Jesus Puertas was raping me.”
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