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While the late Abbé Pierre can no longer be prosecuted, the Paris prosecutor’s office could still investigate potential accomplices or failures to report abuse and assault at the time.
Father Hecker’s death comes after a high-profile legal process in Louisiana that suffered repeated delays due to the elderly ex-priest’s reported health problems.
Bishop John McDermott addressed the decision to file and apologized to victims of clergy abuse.
The laicized priest was sentenced to life in prison in November.
Father Rupnik has been accused by about two dozen women, mostly former nuns, of sexually abusing them during the past three decades.
The priest is being held in jail in Williamson County, Tennessee, on $2 million bond, the police said.
Some of the allegations contained in the report date to the 1970s and 1980s, though others occurred as recently as 2017.
Priest Sex-Abuse Investigation Expands
Father Mata’s bonds were set at $75,000 and $100,000, the police department said.
Overall, the attorney general’s report on the inquiry cited nearly a dozen 'clergy case histories' in which the diocese failed in various ways to investigate or address abuse claims against priests.
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