‘It wasn’t a big deal’: secret deposition reveals how a child molester priest was shielded by his church
The Guardian - 2024-05-09T22:05:22.000Z

Lawrence Hecker pleaded the fifth 117 times as he detailed how the Catholic church protected him for more than two decades after he admitted to molesting children‘We were encouraged to be with younger boys’: breaking down a child molester priest’s secret testimonyLongtime New Orleans Catholic priest Lawrence Hecker received a special honor from the Vatican nearly 25 years ago despite having confessed to molesting children. Then, for another two decades, church leaders in the city strategically... Read this story