Fr. Hernan Toro
First named publicly as accused on the San Jose diocese’s list 10/18/18 list. Noted to be from the Archdiocese of Popayan, Colombia. Sexually abused a child while assigned to Our Lady Star of the Sea in Alviso in 1983. Convicted. Registered sex offender. Kept in parish ministry. Banned in 1990. Missing in the diocese’s 10/18 report was the fact that Toro was currently in jail, since 10/17, accused of molesting two girls – one age between age 4 and 6 in 2011, the other age 11 in 2016. Suit filed in 2/19.
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