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Ex-New Mexico Priest Gets 30 Years for Child Sexual Abuse

Reuters

   A former Roman Catholic priest who fled to Morocco before he was
   returned to the United States and convicted of sexually abusing an
   altar boy in New Mexico in the 1990s was sentenced Friday to 30 years
   in prison, prosecutors said.

   U.S District Judge Martha Vazquez imposed the sentence in Albuquerque
   federal court on Arthur Perrault, 81, a onetime Air Force chaplain and
   colonel, U.S. Attorney John Anderson said in a statement.

   "There are few acts more horrific than the long-term sexual abuse of a
   child," Anderson said. "At long last, today's sentence holds Perrault
   accountable for his deplorable conduct."

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