At the suburban New Orleans healing chapel he once helped build in his role as a Roman Catholic priest, Anthony Odiong’s name had already been removed hours after he had been convicted in Texas on Friday of criminal clergy sexual assault.
What remained inscribed among lists of hundreds of benefactors outside the Our Lady of Guadalupe chapel in Luling, Louisiana, were the names of two women whom Waco, Texas, prosecutors revealed were part of a broader group whom Odiong victimized before his conviction on charges of illicitly exploiting his spiritual authority as a clergyman to pursue sex with devout female parishioners.
