One survivor says local archbishop \u2018should have been sitting right there next to\u2019 abuser Lawrence Hecker at his hearing<\/p>\n
The clergy abuse survivor who successfully pursued a child rape charge against retired Roman Catholic priest Lawrence Hecker<\/a> in New Orleans says the local archbishop \u201cshould have been sitting right there next to\u201d the serial molester clergyman at his criminal sentencing hearing<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n A statement issued by the survivor after the 93-year-old Hecker received a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment Wednesday alluded to how New Orleans<\/a> archbishop Gregory Aymond has repeatedly expressed a desire in the media to \u201cwalk with\u201d the victims of the worldwide Catholic church\u2019s decades-old clergy molestation scandal.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One survivor says local archbishop \u2018should have been sitting right there next to\u2019 abuser Lawrence Hecker at his hearing The clergy abuse survivor who successfully pursued a child rape charge against retired Roman Catholic priest Lawrence Hecker in New Orleans says the local archbishop \u201cshould have been sitting right there next to\u201d the serial molester … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}