CALIFORNIA/OKLAHOMA
The Worthy Adversary
April 22, 2016 Joelle Casteix
So we can assume that OK City Archbishop Paul S. Coakley doesn’t bother with that whole “background check” thing.
Why?
A former San Diego priest who vanished after he pled guilty to misdemeanor sexual battery and “engaging in unlawful sexual touching” in 2012 has resurfaced in parishes in Oklahoma.
Fr. Jose Alexis Davila was sentenced to three years’ probation in 2012 and ordered to stay away from the 19-year-old victim. The Diocese of San Diego was harshly criticized for allowing the priest back in a parish.
By October of that year, Davila was gone.
Thanks to a tip from a reader, I learned that Davila was assigned to Blessed Sacrament Parish in Lawton, OK in December 2015—in the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City.
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