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Police: Woodburn priest chased boy down street after abuse [And it continues]
Oregonlive ^ | 8/16/2012 | Maxine Bernstein

Posted on 08/16/2012 7:46:17 PM PDT by RnMomof7

Benjamin Brink/The Oregonian St. Luke Catholic Church in Woodburn, where the Rev. Angel Armando Perez is the parish priest. It was close to midnight Sunday when Woodburn resident James Curths saw the 12-year-old boy running down the street toward him. Curths said the child, panting and out of breath, begged for help, telling him a man was chasing him.

Moments later, a man rounded the corner wearing only underwear. He stood a short distance away, trying to wave the boy over as Curths and his sister-in-law prepared to drive the boy to relatives.

"He was staring at us," said Heather Rodriguez, 28, Curths' sister-in-law, who was also outside. "Then he stood there with his hands on his hips like, 'You're really not going to give him to me?'"

Rodriguez and Curths, 35, told the man they were calling the police. Only then, they said, did the man jog away.

The man who chased after the boy that night, Woodburn police say, was the Rev. Angel Armando Perez, the parish priest at St. Luke Catholic Church in Woodburn. Early Monday, the boy gave police a detailed account of the alleged sex abuse he said occurred at Perez's home, leading to Perez's arrest later Monday.

Court records released Tuesday detail the alleged abuse and the pastor's actions after the incident.

"Father Angel touched me"

Perez was arraigned in Marion County Circuit Court on Tuesday, appearing via video from Marion County Jail, wearing a black V-neck top with his hands secured in front of his waist. He faced allegations of first-degree sexual abuse, abuse of a child in the display of sexually explicit conduct, furnishing alcohol to a minor and driving under the influence of intoxicants.

The Salem boy told authorities that Perez had asked his parents a few days earlier if he could take him on a trip to the mountains. He and his family attended a community church event Sunday night, and the 12-year-old went with Perez that night to the pastor's house, a grayish-green home less than 200 paces from the church's front door.

The boy told police Perez gave him a beer and they watched a movie. The boy told investigators that an air mattress was set up on the living room floor for him to sleep on. He said he fell asleep on the mattress, the affidavit said.

Later, the boy said, he was "woken up by a couple of flashes."

He said that when he opened his eyes, he saw Perez next to the air mattress, with one hand on the boy's genitals and one hand holding a cellphone. The boy discovered his underwear and shorts lowered to his knees, while Perez was dressed in underwear and a T-shirt, the boy told police.

The boy said he went to pack up his things when Perez went upstairs. "Father Angel called to him saying, 'Come back to bed,'" the police affidavit says.

Instead, the boy said goodbye and ran off.

Curths, who was hosting a barbecue when the boy showed up outside his house, said he looked distraught. "He just seemed really terrified, and he was almost in tears," Curths said.

When the pastor caught up to the boy outside Curths' house, wearing what Curths and his sister-in-law said looked like a burgundy Speedo swimsuit, the boy hid behind Curths.

"He was scared to death," Curths said. "It was like someone running from a ghost."

Curths said the boy told him that the man had "touched his privates."

James Curths, 35, said the boy looked "like someone running from a ghost." Curths drove the boy to his sister's house, where the boy told his sister what had happened, the affidavit said.

According to the affidavit, the boy told her, "Father Angel touched me in my privates."

He was shaking and appeared scared, the sister told authorities. The boy's sister alerted her mother, and his father drove to pick up the boy.

"I made a mistake"

Meanwhile, according to the affidavit, Perez had driven to the boy's home in Salem to talk to the boy's mother and brother about 2 a.m. Monday.

Perez had a strong odor of alcohol and appeared intoxicated, the brother of the alleged victim told police.

The brother told police that Perez's first statement was, "I am very sorry; I made a mistake."

Perez continued to ask forgiveness, and added, "I didn't mean to hurt" the child, the boy's brother told police.

"I am just one who serves in the church, and I have sinned; don't stop believing in the church," Perez reportedly told the victim's brother, according to the affidavit.

The Oregonian’s continuing coverage of the Rev. Angel Armando Perez, 46, the parish priest at St. Luke Catholic Church in Woodburn, who faces accusations of sex abuse involving a minor.

Perez also offered to let the boy's mother and brother check his phone, saying, "You won't find anything," the affidavit said. The relatives asked Perez to leave the house.

"This is the last time you will see me," Perez said before leaving, the brother told police.

On Monday, Woodburn detectives interviewed Perez at the Woodburn Police Department.

Perez told them he drank too much at the community event. He said he and the boy were given a ride back to his Woodburn home. There, Perez said, he drank another beer, and they watched a movie, the affidavit said.

He told police "at some point he blacked out and doesn't remember what happened," the affidavit said.

Perez told Woodburn Detective Sgt. Nick Wilson that he remembered going upstairs and brushing his teeth, and when he came downstairs, he recalled a look of "disappointment and anger" on the boy's face, the affidavit said.

Perez, the affidavit said, admitted he drove intoxicated to the boy's home to apologize and find out what happened. He said he dropped to his knees and begged for forgiveness.


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Ohhh and a local case http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/178070/37/Victim-Settles-with-Buffalo-Diocese-Over-Alleged-Priest-Sex-Assault
1 posted on 08/16/2012 7:46:34 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: RnMomof7

Oh for a person at hand with concealed carry permit when this perv showed up.


2 posted on 08/16/2012 7:54:27 PM PDT by lastchance ("Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis" St. Augustine)
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To: RnMomof7

The police better get this guy fast before the Church puts him in the Priest Protection Program.


3 posted on 08/16/2012 7:56:21 PM PDT by O6ret
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To: RnMomof7

Words cannot possibly describe what reading this does to me.....

A child comes running up to me, terrified....begging for help....and an adult male rounds the corner in his underwear......I swear to God Above that I don’t put the kid in the car and threaten to call the police.

I’d tackle the sick sumbitch and rip him apart.....THEN call the cops to come pick up the pieces. I’d face the charges with a clean conscience.


4 posted on 08/16/2012 8:03:50 PM PDT by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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"Perez told them he drank too much at the community event. He said he and the boy were given a ride back to his Woodburn home. There, Perez said, he drank another beer, and they watched a movie, the affidavit said. He told police "at some point he blacked out and doesn't remember what happened," the affidavit said. "

Very sad...

5 posted on 08/16/2012 8:10:41 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: wagglebee; little jeremiah

rope and millstone ping.


7 posted on 08/16/2012 8:19:36 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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Sad? Really? It’s freakin illegal, and this perv should be tried and if convicted tossed into the general population at the largest, worst, penetentery they can find.

And then this kids parents should be flogged for leaving a twelve year old boy with a grown man.

And then the kid should get every nickel that church has, and ever will have.


8 posted on 08/16/2012 8:22:13 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (I am NOT from Vermont. I am from MA. And I don't support Romney. Please read before "assuming.")
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""Father Angel touched me in my privates."

Must not have been given enough sacramental grace.

9 posted on 08/16/2012 8:24:59 PM PDT by spunkets
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"Sad? Really? It’s freakin illegal, "

His alibi's illegal? I think it's just a very sad one.

10 posted on 08/16/2012 8:31:06 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: O6ret

I don’t know when he was ordained but I doubt he would make it through any seminary screening process with the rules now in place.

This involves a Catholic priest but the real story is that it is wrong to assume it is safe for homosexuals to be alone around teenage and preteen boys. This is why the BSA are so right to stick to their guns.


11 posted on 08/16/2012 8:38:22 PM PDT by lastchance ("Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis" St. Augustine)
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And what about all the sex abuse that goes on in Protestant churches? Far higher that in Catholic Churches.>{? What about the sexual abuse that occurs in public schools? Do you post any of them? Or do you just pick out the Catholic bashing ones.

This community is in my county. The details still aren't all out.

12 posted on 08/16/2012 8:39:46 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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In 2010,
seven credible cases of abuse were reported in a church that numbers over 65 million adherents.

13 posted on 08/16/2012 8:41:33 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Oops for some reason part of my reply got left out. The real story is about homosexuals not just priests who are homosexuals. This is not priestly behavior it is “gay” behavior.


14 posted on 08/16/2012 8:42:34 PM PDT by lastchance ("Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis" St. Augustine)
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Sexual Abuse of Children by Protestant Ministers

Report: Protestant Church Insurers Handle 260 Sex Abuse Cases a Year

Abuse by Protestant Ministers of Every Denomination

Child Sexual Molestation by Various Protestant Clergy

Baptist Predators website

"Yeshiva" of Brooklyn also Guilty of Child Abuse

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Sex Abuse by Teachers Said Worse Than Catholic Church

WHEN BOYS ARE MOLESTED BY TEACHERS AND OTHERS IN POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY

 

Forgotten Study: Abuse in School 100 Times Worse than by Priests

 


15 posted on 08/16/2012 8:43:22 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: RnMomof7

Priest asks to take your 12 year old son on a trip to the mountains, just the two of them. Yep- nothing to worry about there (eyeroll).


16 posted on 08/16/2012 8:51:26 PM PDT by richmwill
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To: RnMomof7

A Priest, an alcoholic and a pedophile walk into a bar. And that was just the first guy!


19 posted on 08/16/2012 8:53:19 PM PDT by RaisingCain
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This thread is posted in the Religion Forum. Here, any post containing potty language - or a reference to potty language - is pulled.

If your post disappeared and you'd like to see it again to remove the reference, let me know by Freepmail.

20 posted on 08/16/2012 8:56:33 PM PDT by Religion Moderator
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