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MELISSA MONTOYA, MMONTOYA@NEWS-PRESS.COM March 13, 2015
A Naples priest has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into child molestation accusation stemming from 30 years ago.
The accusation against Father Leo Riley, a priest at St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church on Rattlesnake Hammock Road, began in December of last year at the Archdiocese of Dubuque in Iowa.
According to John Robbins, director of communications for the Archdiocese of Dubuque, the alleged child molestation took place in 1985 when Riley was an associate pastor at a parish there.
In February, the Archdiocese of Dubuque Review Board advised the Archbishop Michael Jackels that accusations were “not manifestly false or frivolous.”
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