Priest convicted of abuse now faces deportation
March 05, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: A Capuchin priest who is now serving a prison sentence for sexual abuse will be deported when he completes his sentence, having been found guilty of passport fraud.
Father Jorge Antonio Velez-Lopez, a native of Colombia, had served in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland, and the Diocese of Alexandria, Louisiana; in 2020 he was charged with molesting a young girl, convicted, and sentenced to a 9-year term.
Now a federal judge in Louisiana has found Velez-Lopez guilty of passport fraud, since on a 2013 application for US citizenship he testified under oath that he had never committed a crime—despite the fact that he had already admitted to the abuse that eventually led to his criminal conviction.
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