By City News Service
Apr 29, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Arraignment is set today for a former Catholic priest who is charged with lewd acts on four boys at two parishes in Palmdale and Redondo Beach between the mid-1990s and 2001.
Christopher John Cunningham, 58, was charged April 2 with a dozen felony counts of lewd acts on a child under the age of 14, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
Cunningham was an associate pastor at Saint Mary's Catholic Church in Palmdale and worked at Saint Lawrence Martyr Catholic Church in Redondo Beach at the time of the alleged crimes.