Man charged in woman s sexual assault at New Caney gas station
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Mitchell Lee Knight, 39, of New Caney, is being charged with sexual assault, a second-degree felony.courtesy of the Montgomery County Sheriff s Office
A man recently facing charges related to a rape caught right off camera at a New Caney gas station is accused of similar offenses, leaving authorities suspecting there are more victims.
Mitchell Lee Knight, 39, of New Caney, is charged with sexual assault, a second-degree felony, according to Montgomery County court records. Knight is out on a $50,000 bond, according to the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office.
Houston-area priest gets 10 years for child indecency counts
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Dec 16, 2020 at 8:12 pm EDT
CONROE, Texas A Houston-area Roman Catholic priest was sentenced to a decade in prison on Wednesday for abusing children at his church more than 20 years ago.
Manuel La Rosa-Lopez pleaded guilty last month to two counts of indecency with a child. As part of an agreement with the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office, three other indecency with a child charges he was also facing were dropped. He will be eligible for parole after five years.
The two counts La Rosa-Lopez pleaded guilty to arise from allegations made against him while he was a priest at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Conroe, located just north of Houston.
Priest in Conroe sex abuse cases sentenced to 10 years
Phil Archer, Reporter
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“He feels remorseful. This is a sad episode that’s over,” said his attorney Wendell Odom.
The cases stem from his sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy while La Rosa Lopez served as pastor at Conroe’s Sacred Heart Catholic Church in the ’90s. The sentence ended an investigation that began in 2018 by Conroe Police and the Montgomery County District Attorney after the victims came forward as adults.
During the hearing, both were given the opportunity to confront their abuser.
One of them, now a 35-year-old man, recounted how being abused by La Rosa Lopez, which robbed him of his life and his religion. The victim said he turned to alcohol to dull his pain, eventually landing in prison for DWI. Then he recounted a long, slow climb to redemption, eventually becoming a counselor to other victims of abuse.