ST. LOUIS (MO)
Riverfront Times
By Jessica Lussenhop
Fri., Jun. 1 2012
A priest who served in four different Missouri parishes has just been formally charged with sexual abuse of a minor in a Colorado courtroom.
The details of Charles Robert Manning’s alleged crimes are under seal, but an investigation began after one 15-year-old boy complained that Manning was behaving like a “jealous lover” toward him.
While Manning awaits his next court date, new details of his alleged crimes are beginning to trickle out, and victims’ advocates want to know why Manning has been allowed to come back to St. Louis.
According to Bishop Accountability, Manning served in Glencoe, Bridgeton, St. Louis, and Imperial, starting in the late ’90s. For reasons that remain unclear, he was reassigned to St. Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Church in Colorado Springs in 2007.
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