CALIFORNIA
Daily Democrat
By Democrat Staff
A former Woodland priest facing several counts of sexually molesting a 13-year-old girl pleaded no contest Friday in Sacramento County Superior Court.
The Rev. Uriel Ojeda pleaded no contest to one of seven counts against him, and now faces an eight-year prison term when he is sentenced Aug. 2, according to the Sacramento Bee.
Prosecutors said the 33-year-old Catholic priest “entered the victim’s bedroom at night” at her home in Sacramento and touched her in a lewd and lascivious manner. At the time of the offense, between 2007 and 2009, Ojeda was a priest at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Woodland.
By the time of his arrest in late 2011, Ojeda had moved on to become a parochial vicar at Our Lady of Mercy Parish in Redding.
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