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Abuse charge costs priest
Served in many Sacramento Valley Catholic churches
By Howard Yune
THE APPEAL-DEMOCRAT
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Marysville, CA - A former Catholic priest in the Mid-Valley
has been stripped of his title after allegations he ***ually
abused a 13-year-old boy in Colusa more than 20 years ago.
Bishop William Weigand of the Diocese of Sacramento on
Monday announced the penalty against The Rev. Francisco
Hernandez-Tovar, who served at Our Lady of Lourdes Church
in Colusa from 1986 to 1988.
"He'll never work as a priest and he'll never minister
again," Kevin Eckery, a diocese spokesman, said Tuesday.
The 59-year-old Hernandez-Tovar, a priest for 27 years, is
not allowed to work for any diocese in any capacity and
cannot draw a salary.
No telephone number was available for Hernandez-Tovar, who
Eckery said lives in the Sacramento area.
The accuser, now in his 30s, told the diocese in July that
Hernandez-Tovar had abused him while serving at Our Lady of
Lourdes, according to Eckery. An 11-member review panel
with eight lay members looked into the allegations and
recommended that Weigand remove the priest.
During his two years in Colusa, Hernandez-Tovar also served
Maxwell churchgoers at Sacred Heart Parish, according to
diocese records.
Over the years, the priest worked in 13 parishes from the
Sacramento area to Red Bluff, mainly ministering to
Spanish-speaking wor****pers. Failing health forced
Hernandez-Tovar to give up full-time ministerial work about
six years ago, according to Eckery.
Hernandez-Tovar was serving part-time at St. Isidore
Catholic Church in Yuba City and Our Lady of Lourdes in
Sacramento when the accusations surfaced, Eckery said. The
priest was put on paid leave from both positions and barred
from conducting Mass.
St. Isidore's current priest, the Rev. Francisco Hernandez-
Gomez, said late Tuesday the parish will notify members of
Hernandez-Tovar's punishment in its next weekly newsletter,
but will leave any further investigation to the Sacramento
diocese.
Diocese officials on Thursday passed the information about
Hernandez-Tovar to the Colusa County Sheriff's Department,
Sgt. Kevin Erdelt said today. No charges are planned
because the statute of limitations ranges from six to 10
years for ***ual felonies.
Anyone with information about the former priest's
activities in Colusa is asked to call the Sheriff's
Department investigative unit at 458-0215 or 458-0216, or
the Colusa Police Department at 458-7777.
More at:
http://www.appeal-democrat.com/news/hernandez_59638___article.html/priest_tovar.html
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