NORTH CAROLINA
WSOC
[with video]
by: Allison Latos Updated: Feb 21, 2017
The disturbing crime of sexual abuse by priests has rocked the Catholic Church worldwide and in Charlotte.
Robert Yurgel was a priest at St. Matthew Catholic Church in Ballantyne.
He admitted to sexually abusing an altar boy, spent nearly eight years in prison and was released in the summer of 2016.
The parents of Yurgel’s victim’s family spoke publicly to Eyewitness News anchor Allison Latos about the crime that stole their son’s innocence and their plea to all parents.
Robert and Anne Price raised their five children in the Catholic faith.
The family spent every Sunday at St. Matthew Catholic Church in Ballantyne, but they say it is now a place of so much pain.
“God said, ‘Bring me your children.’ He didn’t say, ‘Bring me your children so I can abuse them,'” Anne Price told Latos.
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