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Barbara Leader, The News-Star October 24, 2014
A former pastor at St. Paschal’s Catholic Church in West Monroe has been identified by as a credibly accused child molester.
According to a news release by SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, Father Charles Potocki was named Thursday by the St Paul’s Archdiocese and a legal firm as being one of our priests having “substantiated claims against them of sexually abusing a minor.”
Potocki also reportedly worked in Minnesota and Nebraska.
According to a news release issued Friday, Catholic officials claim they don’t know when Potocki was at St. Paschal’s.
SNAP is calling on anyone who may have seen, suspected or suffered crimes by Father Potocki, or any cleric, “to speak up, get help, expose wrongdoers, protectors others and start healing.”
Potocki was a religious order priest from the Order of Friar Minor and assigned to the Shreveport diocese.
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