Cleric: Lawrence Hecker
WATCH: ‘Losing Faith’ – Preying From The Pulpit Special Report
WWL Chief Investigative Reporter David Hammer uncovers the truth about a Catholic priest and known pedophile shielded by the church for years, leading to a bombshell confession and a long ...
Admitted Child Rapist Priest Dies One Week Before Beginning to Serve Life Sentence
Admitted child rapist and retired Roman Catholic priest Lawrence Hecker has died a little more than a week after he began serving a sentence of life imprisonment, officials said on ...
‘They Covered-Up Child Rape’: How New Orleans Archdiocese Protected Priest Who Preyed On Children
In the case of serial child molester and retired Catholic priest Lawrence Hecker, the cover-up failed. But it wasn’t for lack of trying by a coalition of high-ranking church officials ...
Retired New Orleans Priest Pleads Guilty to Kidnapping and Raping Boy in 1970s
Shortly before a jury was supposed to be chosen for his trial on criminal charges of kidnapping and raping a boy in the mid-1970s, the self-acknowledged serial child molester and ...
Secret Deposition Reveals How A Child Molester Priest Was Shielded By His Church
ongtime New Orleans Catholic priest Lawrence Hecker received a special honor from the Vatican nearly 25 years ago despite having confessed to molesting children. Then, for another two decades, church ...
Louisiana Grand Jury Charges Disgraced Priest With Sexual Assault of Teenage Boy
A state grand jury has charged a now-91-year-old disgraced priest with sexually assaulting a teenage boy in 1975, an extraordinary prosecution that could shed new light on what Roman Catholic ...
WATCH: New Orleans Priest Admits to Sexually Abusing Minors
After years of denial, a notorious former New Orleans church leader admitted in an interview that he sexually molested or harassed several teenagers during his career. CBS affiliate WWL-TV in New ...