Arthur Perrault, a former Roman Catholic priest, argued that the federal court erred by allowing other victims to testify.
(CN) The 10th Circuit upheld a federal grand jury’s conviction of a former priest on seven counts of sexual abuse against a 10-year-old boy dating back to the 90s.
Arthur Perrault, a former Roman Catholic priest who served at several parishes in Albuquerque, New Mexico, fled the country in 1992 to Canada and then Morocco after learning of a local reporter’s investigation into allegations that Perrault sexually abused young boys.
“After a two-week sojourn in Canada, Perrault made a new life in Morocco a country, as it so happens, that doesn’t share an extradition treaty with the United States,” wrote Circuit Judge Gregory Phillips, a Barack Obama nominee, in the 58-page decision.
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By - Associated Press - Wednesday, April 21, 2021
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a former Roman Catholic priest’s convictions and 30-year prison sentence in a New Mexico case centered on sexual abuse of an altar boy at a veterans cemetery and military base.
A 58-page decision by the three judges on a 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel denied Arthur Perrault‘s appeal, saying they were convinced Perrault “received a fundamentally fair trial in compliance with his constitutional rights.”
Kirtland Air Force Base gate in New Mexico. (Courtesy photo)
21 Apr 2021 The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a former Roman Catholic priest s convictions and 30-year prison sentence in a New Mexico case centered on sexual abuse of an altar boy at a veterans cemetery and military base.
A 58-page decision by the three judges on a 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel denied Arthur Perrault s appeal, saying they were convinced Perrault received a fundamentally fair trial in compliance with his constitutional rights.
Perrault had fled the United States decades before he was returned from Morocco after being indicted in 2017.