A priest in Los Angeles confessed to a horrific string of atrocities, including molesting over 100 young boys and visiting male prostitutes while serving for years in a California parish, recently released documents reveal.
Ruben Martinez’s confession is part of nearly 2,000 pages of documents highlighting years of sexual abuse by priests, brothers and nuns in the Los Angeles archdiocese. As part of a 2007, $660 million settlement, the papers give a glimpse into the complicity of the L.A. archdioceses into the abuses cases that have plagued much of the Catholic Church for over a decade.
The graphic details compiled from therapy notes and psychiatric investigations of Martinez are some of the most gruesome and damning accounts of sexual abuse in the L.A. dioceses. They tell the tale of how Martinez was shuttled in and out of programs and treatment centers and the thousands of dollars that his religious order, the Oblates, spent trying to “cure” him of self-admitted pedophilia.
His religious order bounced him around from various treatment centers and parishes throughout the years as Martinez continued to draw complaints and suspicions from parents and children. While serving at a small parish in Westmorland, Calif., Martinez would drive for miles into San Diego to pick up male prostitutes.
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