CALIFORNIA
Record Searchlight
By Jim Schultz
Posted July 5, 2013
A suspended Redding priest today pleaded no contest to molesting a teenage girl.
The Rev. Uriel Ojeda, 33, was taken into custody after accepting a plea bargain, The Sacramento Bee reported.
He had been free on $70,000 bail.
He is to sentenced to eight years in prison under the plea deal, The Bee said. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 2.
Ojeda took the plea bargain after a Superior Court judge ruled earlier this week statements Ojeda made to a Sacramento diocese official and a private investigator could be used against him at trial.
Ojeda, who was arrested Nov. 30, 2011, was charged with lewd and lascivious acts with a teenage girl over a two-year span — starting when she was 14 — in Sacramento and Shasta counties, according to the criminal complaint.
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