NEW ORLEANS (LA)
4WWL
June 30, 2020
By Mike Perlstein and Ramon Antonio Vargas
Brignac was named in the November 2018 list of credibly accused sexual abusers within the Catholic Church. He stood accused of raping a child in 1980s.
A disgraced Roman Catholic deacon who was awaiting trial on allegations of raping a child in the 1980s died Monday, according to his attorney.
While George Brignac had been free since posting a $1 million bail in December, he never made it home, attorney Martin Regan said Tuesday.
While briefly locked up in the Orleans Justice Center as his bail was being processed in mid-December, Brignac broke a vertebrae when he fell inside the lock-up. He never recovered, Regan said, bouncing between hospital stays and a rehabilitation home.
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