NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A disgraced 93-year-old New Orleans priest pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges involving the sexual assault of a teenage boy in 1975. Lawrence Hecker, who left the ministry in ...

that Hecker made the decision to plead guilty because “he wanted to take responsibility for the crimes that he committed." Related: Ex-Priest, Indicted for Allegedly Murdering Beauty Queen After ...

Lawrence Hecker, an elderly and enfeebled former Catholic priest who pleaded guilty this month to raping a boy in a church gym in New Orleans nearly 50 years ago, died Thursday morning in prison ...

A former coach and teacher at South Point High School in Belmont pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation charges after being arrested earlier this year. Channel 9 previously reported on Kristopher ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A 93-year-old former Catholic priest sentenced to life in prison ... Hecker had pleaded guilty to charges including first-degree rape and aggravated kidnapping shortly before ...