Complaint against ‘relic’ priest not sexual misconduct but a “boundary issue”

Lawyers for a priest accused of an “incident” that halted a nationwide relic tour say that Fr. Carlos Martins touched a student’s hair last week to build “rapport” and that Illinois police are investigating the matter only at the insistence of an “outraged father.”  The incident happened in front of 200 students and other witnesses and involved a joke by the priest about his baldness. He then “lifted up a lock from her [a female student’s] shoulders to show . . . its length.” No charges have been filed against Fr. Martins.

 

 

 

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