CONROE (TX)
Click2Houston
September 12, 2018
A Catholic priest turned himself in to police Tuesday after accusations that he abused at least two children while assigned to a Conroe church, police said.
According to Conroe police, Manuel La Rosa-Lopez was charged with four counts of indecency with a child in connection with an investigation that was launched last month.
“They did make outcrys to church officials at that time, and that information was not relayed, it’s our understanding at this time, that information was not relayed to law enforcement in any capacity,” Assistant Montgomery County District Attorney Tyler Dunman said Wednesday.
Police said the allegations of abuse span from the late ’90s to the early 2000s and accuse La Rosa-Lopez of abusing a girl and a boy while he was assigned to the Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
Investigators said La Rosa-Lopez surrendered to authorities at the Montgomery County Jail on Tuesday.
La Rosa-Lopez, 60, is currently a priest at St. John Fisher Catholic Church in Richmond.
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