CALIFORNIA
KRCR
SACRAMENTO, Calif. –
A former Redding priest pleaded no contest in court Friday to one count of molestation.
The Sacramento Bee reports Rev. Uriel Ojeda, 33, will be sentenced to eight years in prison under the plea bargain.
Ojeda was scheduled to stand trial later this month in Sacramento on seven counts of molesting a teenage girl. The girl was 13 years old at the time of the alleged offenses.
He was taken into custody Friday morning after taking a plea bargain.
A Superior Court judge ruled earlier this week that statements Ojeda made to a Sacramento diocese official and a private investigator could be used against him at trial.
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