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The Guardian - US
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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Texas grand jury indicts Catholic priest on three felony sexual assault charges

A priest in a church.
Anthony Odiong delivering a homily in November 2023. Photograph: YouTube page of St Anthony of Padua church of Luling, Louisiana

The criminal case that authorities are building against a Roman Catholic priest accused of preying on women whom he met while working in south-east Louisiana and Texas is progressing, with a grand jury in the latter state indicting him on three felony sexual assault charges.

Anthony Odiong, 55, faces two counts of second-degree sexual assault as well as one of first-degree sexual assault in the charges handed up against him recently in the McLennan county, Texas, state court.

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