A former Roman Catholic deacon who was removed from the ministry in 1988 over multiple accusations of child molestation was jailed early Saturday on allegations that he raped a preteen boy and wrote him love letters roughly four decades ago.
It was the first arrest of a clergyman in New Orleans on a sex-abuse charge since the church’s long-simmering abuse crisis reignited last year.
George Feldner Brignac, 84, faces a count of first-degree rape in the latest of several criminal cases brought against him, though none have previously been successful.
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