Jeanerette pastor accused of improper behavior with minors, Lafayette Diocese announces

BATON ROUGE (LA)
The Acadiana Advocate

November 1, 2018

By Ben Myers

Update, 10 p.m. Thursday

Lt. John Mowell, public information officer for the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office, said in a news release late Thursday night that after talking with Gil Dozier, the attorney working on behalf of Diocese of Lafayette, that the diocese is not aware of any known victims living in Lafayette Parish.

The diocese, Mowell added, notified the Sheriff’s Office “out of an abundance of caution because the reverend who is on administrative leave (Jody Simoneau) worked in this parish.”

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