Fr. Jose Luis Sandoval
Accused in 6/1998 of abusing an 11-year-old boy in 1976. Archdiocese investigated; said information “believable”. Removed. Fled to Guadalajara, Mexico; allowed ministry there based on a positive recommendation from San Antonio until removed by the archbishop in 2004. While reviewing files in 2002, the San Antonio archdiocese found a 1985 allegation that Sandoval attempted abuse of a teenage boy. No action until 1993, when he was sent for evaluation to Programa Genesis in Mexico for six month. He received good report and was reassigned in the Archdiocese of San Antonio in 1995. Name included on the archdiocese’s list 1/31/2019, noting six allegations. Case referred to the Vatican for possible laicization. Appeared in 2019 to be pastor of Nuestra Senora de Belen, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico, in the Diocese of Guadalajara.
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