{"id":74024,"date":"2026-05-26T11:58:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/trial-of-us-priest-charged-with-sexual-assault-begins-with-jury-selection\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T11:58:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:58:45","slug":"trial-of-us-priest-charged-with-sexual-assault-begins-with-jury-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/trial-of-us-priest-charged-with-sexual-assault-begins-with-jury-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial of US priest charged with sexual assault begins with jury selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Odiong accused of sexually abusing three female congregants in Waco<strong> <\/strong>faces a maximum of life imprisonment<\/p>\n<p>The criminal trial of a Roman Catholic priest who ministered in Texas and south-east Louisiana and was charged with illicitly abusing his status as a clergyman to pursue sex with spiritually vulnerable female congregants began on Tuesday with jury selection.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Odiong, 57, faces five counts of sexual assault in the first degree and two such counts in the second-degree in a state courthouse in Waco, Texas, involving three women whom he met while working there.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/26\/texas-priest-anthony-odiong-abuse-trial\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Odiong accused of sexually abusing three female congregants in Waco faces a maximum of life imprisonment The criminal trial of a Roman Catholic priest who ministered in Texas and south-east Louisiana and was charged with illicitly abusing his status as a clergyman to pursue sex with spiritually vulnerable female congregants began on Tuesday with &#8230; <a title=\"Trial of US priest charged with sexual assault begins with jury selection\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/trial-of-us-priest-charged-with-sexual-assault-begins-with-jury-selection\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trial of US priest charged with sexual assault begins with jury selection\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-74024","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\/74024","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}