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Criminal

Sep. 12, 2003

Police Arrest Freed Priest in New Sex Case

LOS ANGELES - Retired Roman Catholic priest Michael Wempe, who walked out of jail this summer after the U.S. Supreme Court gutted church sex-abuse investigations in California, was arrested Wednesday on new charges of molesting a child while serving as chaplain at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said.

By Jeffrey Anderson and Anne LaJeunesse
Daily Journal Staff Writers
        LOS ANGELES - Retired Roman Catholic priest Michael Wempe, who walked out of jail this summer after the U.S. Supreme Court gutted church se...

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