Summary

Retired New Orleans priest Lawrence Hecker pleaded guilty to kidnapping and raping a boy in the 1970s.

Hecker, who admitted to molesting several other children, will receive a mandatory life sentence.

The case has led to an investigation into whether the archdiocese ran a child sex trafficking ring.

  • @betterdeadthanreddit
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    58 days ago

    …inquiry over whether the archdiocese ran a child sex-trafficking ring…

    Turns out it wasn’t but only on a technicality: the child sex-trafficking ring was running the archdiocese.