New Mexico man describes sexual abuse in trial of retired Air Force chaplain
New Mexico man describes sexual abuse in trial of retired Air Force chaplain
By: Morgan Lee, The Associated Press ? 1 day ago
SANTA FE, N.M. — A New Mexico man counted scores of instances Thursday of sexual abuse by a former Roman Catholic priest and Air Force chaplain in the early 1990s, testifying that the then-pastor inappropriately touched him at Kirtland Air Force Base, a church rectory, a veterans’ cemetery and an amusement park when he was as young as 10 years old.
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Now 81, Perrault entered and left the courtroom with the aid of a walker, and used a hearing device to listen to his accuser's testimony. He returned six months ago to the United States from Tangier, Morocco — where authorities say he had been teaching for more than a decade at an English-language school for children before he was arrested.
The former chaqplain, who reportedly draws retired pay, had been a fugitive from justice for more than 26 years.
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They later arrived at what the victim now believes was the Servants of the Paraclete center in Jemez Springs, a secluded retreat in the mountains of northern New Mexico that served as a treatment center for pedophile priests.
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https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/04/06/new-mexico-man-describes-sexual-abuse-in-trial-against-retired-air-force-chaplain/
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Story of Perrault regarding a different child:
Judge orders ex-priest to pay $16M in sexual abuse case
By Uriel J. Garcia
The New Mexican Feb 18, 2017
An 11-year-old Kenneth Wolter is shown with Arthur Perrault. Wolter said he was abused dozens of times by Perrault beginning in 1991 while an altar boy at St. Bernadette Parish in Albuquerque. A judge has ruled that Perrault must pay Wolter $16 million. Courtesy photo
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https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/judge-orders-ex-priest-to-pay-m-in-sexual-abuse/article_526d96d2-c3c7-55a5-a4ea-073e4021ec60.html
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Pedophile priests and Servants of the Paraclete
BY MIKE GALLAGHER / JOURNAL INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER
Sunday, August 26th, 2018 at 12:02am
A Pennsylvania grand jury found that a center run by the Servants of the Paraclete was a "laundry" that allowed sexually abusive priests to return to their parishes to abuse children again. (Rose Palmisano/Albuquerque Journal)
Copyright © 2018 Albuquerque Journal
Roman Catholic bishops in Pennsylvania used a treatment center in Jemez Springs for decades as a “laundry” to recycle priests who abused more than 1,000 children so they could return to their parishes in their diocese back home, according to a Pennsylvania grand jury report released this month.
Only one of the more than 300 priests mentioned in the grand jury report stayed in New Mexico, briefly, after being sent for treatment at the Servants of the Paraclete foundation in Jemez Springs that operated from 1947 until it closed in the 1990s.
The grand jury found that sending priests to the foundation was part of the systematic cover-up to protect priests accused of sexually assaulting children that extended back to the 1950s. At least 12 priests from the six dioceses in Pennsylvania were sent to the New Mexico facility over the years.
Parishioners in Pennsylvania were told that priests sent to the Paraclete and two other church facilities in other states were on “sick leave” or suffering from “nervous exhaustion.”
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https://www.abqjournal.com/1213362/pedophile-priests-and-servants-of-the-paraclete.html
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