Priest on trial in Texas for exploiting congregants for sex established as father of New Orleans-area parishioner

DNA testing proved that Anthony Odiong fathered a child with another woman to whom he had been providing spiritual guidance, authorities say

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Texas prosecutors on Thursday established that a Roman Catholic priest being tried there on charges that he illegally exploited his status as a priest to pursue sex with three spiritual vulnerable congregants had a child with a separate congregant in approximately 2023 – while working outside New Orleans.

That explosive development unfolded on the third day of Anthony Odiong’s trial at a state courthouse in Waco, Texas, where he worked before being transferred to Luling, Louisiana.