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Toronto Priest Sought In U.S. Sex Abuse Probe

  Priest In Sex Abuse Probe Investigation. Arrest warrants were issued for two former Roman Catholic priests and an ex-seminarian after prosecutors filed multiple counts of child molestation against them. One of the former priests named is currently retired and living in Toronto. A warrant was issued Tuesday for Thomas Marshall, 74, who has been […]

Sex Abuse Probe

 

Priest In Sex Abuse Probe Investigation. Arrest warrants were issued for two former Roman Catholic priests and an ex-seminarian after prosecutors filed multiple counts of child molestation against them. One of the former priests named is currently retired and living in Toronto.

A warrant was issued Tuesday for Thomas Marshall, 74, who has been charged with 20 counts of lewd acts upon a child under 14. The alleged molestations occurred between 1959 and 1963 while Marshall was serving as a priest with St. Paul the Apostle Church in west Los Angeles, the L.A. County district attorney’s office said in a statement.

The victims, who were 11 and 13 at the time the alleged molestations began, were altar boys, prosecutors said. Marshall, who is retired and living in Toronto, faces one year to live in prison if convicted on each count.

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Lawrence Joseph Lovell, 55, the former youth pastor in charge of altar boys at San Gabriel Mission, was charged with 11 counts of lewd acts upon a child under the age of 14. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison.

Lovell, who now works for the Mental Health Center at the University of New Mexico, allegedly molested four boys between 1980 and 1984, according to prosecutors. He was previously convicted of child molestation in 1986 and removed from the ministry that same year.

Former seminarian Amado Pena, 52, who is believed to be living in New Jersey, was charged with 18 counts of child molestation.

The alleged molestations of two 14-year-old altar boys occurred between 1980 and 1982 at Santa Teresita Church.

Pena left the seminary before becoming a priest, prosecutors said. He faces up to eight years in prison if convicted.

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