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Priest accuser hopes Texas conviction will keep him from victimizing others

A man in vestments in front of a church altar.
Anthony Odiong in November 2023. Photograph: YouTube page of St Anthony of Padua church of Luling, Louisiana

The first woman to publicly accuse a Roman Catholic priest who was convicted by a Texas jury on Friday of repeated adult, criminal clergy sexual abuse has said she “can only hope he is kept from continuing to use faith as his net, his snare and a tool to manipulate current and future victims”.

“I’m grateful to the jury for listening to the evidence and seeing the truth” about the convicted clergyman, Anthony Odiong, said the woman in a statement on Saturday, referred to in court proceedings by the pseudonym Hadassah Doe.

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