Ex-LA priest charged with sexual abuse

[Ian David]

Black Collar Crime

Just over a week after the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles reached a record $US660 million ($NZ831.86 million) deal to settle clergy abuse cases, a former priest was arrested on charges of molesting a young boy.

George Miller, who served in the Los Angeles neighbourhood of Pacoima, is the first current or former Catholic priest to be charged with sex abuse in the city since the nation's largest Roman Catholic diocese finalized the settlement with 508 plaintiffs on July 16.

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Miller, who is 69 and left active ministry in 1996, was taken into custody at his home in California on a felony complaint charging him with three counts of committing lewd acts on a child and three counts of sodomy on a minor.

He is accused of sexually abusing a young boy from 1988 to 1991, starting when the alleged victim was 5 years old. Miller was being held on $US600,000 bail and was due in court as early as Wednesday for an arraignment on the charges. The victim was not named.

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