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 Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email 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 Orlean...

By Ramon Antonio Vargas in Waco, Texas