Posted on 09/24/2014 6:32:15 PM PDT by Gamecock
HAMPTONS BAY, Long Island (PIX11)– A Long Island priest is accused of molesting a 6-year-old girl, resulting in her contracting an STD.
Rev. Augusto Cortez, 50, a Catholic priest of the Vincentian congregation, is wanted by police for sexually assaulting a little girl from Long Island, according to police.
Her family, who will not be named in order to avoid identifying the alleged victim, is deeply distraught, particularly because their child’s suspected molester is someone they trusted and turned to for religious guidance.
“It’s the deepest pain that any mother can ever feel,” the victim’s mother said.
Cortez spent numerous holidays and outings with the family.
The mom says Cortez was an invited guest at a recent house party, but at one point she walked in to find her daughter and him alone. That’s how she discovered the alleged abuse.
Her daughter is now in therapy to deal with the emotional issue.
While she does feel safe to talk knowing he won’t be coming back, she says the abuse happened more times than she can count and she was diagnosed with a painful sexually transmitted disease.
South Hampton police questioned Cortez, but he was not arrested.
“I feel like the Church had something to do with him fleeing,” the mother said.
It wasn’t the first time Cortez had been in trouble with the law.
He is currently on probation for molesting a 12-year-old girl in Brooklyn back in 2008, according to court documents. He was working at St. John the Baptist in Bed Stuy. At the time, Vincentians wrote a letter to the court saying they would supervise Cortez while he was on probation and he would be assigned to their headquarters in Philadelphia — not churches on Long Island.
The Vincentian order did not return calls for comment.
A few days later after the initial questioning, the priest disappeared and now, prosecutors say there is an active search for the him.
Michael Dowd is the attorney working with family and is trying to get the word out about the priest.
“This is about protecting not even their own child but knowing he told them there other families he was close to in Nassau and Suffolk,” Dowd said. “The hope is that they will hear this broadcast. See his picture and start asking their children what happened when he was around.”
If only they get rid of homosexual priests...
Oh. Wait. This was a girl.
Hopefully this guy will be convicted, and the Bishop will show up at the sentencing hearing to argue for a LONG sentence.
It’s not really child molestation if it is a teen.
Oh. Wait. She is 6.
convicted??? hopefully the girls father tracks him down and cuts off his nutz....
You mean the same one who dumped him on this parish after he was convicted of the same behavior with a 12 year old girl?
Would you feel better if he were a camp counselor or a rabbi or a music teacher?
Indeed! Why should a supposed men of God be held to a higher standard than a camp counselor?</snark>
Muslims posing as Catholic priests, will it ever end?
“If only they get rid of homosexual priests...
Oh. Wait. This was a girl”
If the allegations prove to true, it’s a rarity for Catholic priests or any other clergy in other faith to be charged with molesting a girl, pedophile or not. Most molesters are homosexuals and most victims are teenage boys. The statistics prove this out.
Then beat him to death with a large Bible. Just beat him until his skin tears off then keep beating him until dead.
Illegal alien priest?
And yet...
Maybe I'm weird, but I hold all men, regardless of profession, to a minimum standard of "don't molest kids."
He should be executed and anybody, including law enforcement who dropped the ball and his church superiors, should be held accountable for their part.
I agree.
And I hold supposed men of God to an even higher standard. Maybe I’m weird but then again Scripture does the same.
they run...
And yet what? What I said is fact. Most molestors in all faiths are homosexuals. It’s part of their mental disorder. The majority of homosexuals are sexual predators and I could care less who I offend. It’s the truth.
Well, those who live inside the Vatican anyway.
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