OKLAHOMA
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LAWTON, Oklahoma – A survivor’s group says a priest who pleaded guilty in California to fondling a teenage girl in 2011 is now an administrator of three parishes in southwest Oklahoma.
KFMB, the CBS affiliate in San Diego, reports Father Jose Alexis DaVila, who admitted to abusing a 19-year-old woman, is working at at three churches in Caddo and Comanche counties.
David Clohessy, executive director for SNAP – Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests – is outraged DaVila vanished and resurfaced in Oklahoma.
A Lawton church’s website stated on March 29, 2016 Father Jose Alexis DaVila had been assigned as an administrator of St. Ann Church in Elgin, the Mother of Sorrows Church in Apache and Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Sterling.
“I think it’s inappropriate, I think it’s insulting. We believe this priest shouldn’t be a priest at all, this priest should be behind bars,” Clohessy told KFMB.
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