Former New Orleans priest, 93, is sentenced to life in prison for raping boy decades ago

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Former New Orleans priest, 93, is sentenced to life in prison for raping boy decades ago
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A New Orleans judge has sentenced a 93-year-old former Catholic priest to spend the rest of his life behind bars for raping a teenage boy in the 1970s.

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“I tried to get up. I pulled up,” the survivor said. “I realized his left arm was over my neck. I don’t remember much after that.” Hecker was ordained as an archdiocesan priest in 1958 and left a trail of red flags, including his own admission and an undisputed complaint of child molestation leveled against him in the late 1980s,Another survivor, Aaron Hebert, has said Hecker abused him in the late 1960s when he was an eighth grader at a Catholic elementary school outside New Orleans.

“In my opinion, the Archdiocese of New Orleans is morally bankrupt, not financially bankrupt,” Hebert wrote in a letter to a federal judge.

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