{"id":124330,"date":"2019-03-25T14:08:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T14:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=124330"},"modified":"2019-03-26T12:25:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T12:25:06","slug":"convicted-pedophile-priest-was-teaching-english-to-children-in-punta-cana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/03\/25\/convicted-pedophile-priest-was-teaching-english-to-children-in-punta-cana\/","title":{"rendered":"Convicted pedophile priest was teaching English to children in Punta Cana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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After the story broke on NBC News on Friday, 22 March 2019, 47-year old former priest Hadmel<\/g> Fr\u00edas Gat\u00f3n (Hadmels<\/g> DeFrias) found himself without a job by the following Monday. He had been teaching English at a private school, Colegio del Caribe, in Pueblo B\u00e1varo, a residential area in Punta Cana since February 2018. Fr\u00edas is a Dominican by birth who migrated to New Jersey, where he studied religion at Seton Hall University in 1995. He had been ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1999. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The school director and community would find out the grim background of their employee when the story was carried on local media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gat\u00f3n (DeFr\u00edas) had been arrested when he was 31 years after the mother of two brothers under 14 walked in on him one time and complained to church officials. Gat\u00f3n (DeFr\u00edas) subsequently would be convicted for fondling the two brothers that worked at the rectory of St. Mary\u2019s of the Assumption in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 2001 and 2002. He was removed from the parish and eventually defrocked from the Roman Catholic Church. The man was first arrested in 2003 when he was living in Maryland. As part of his conviction in 2004, he was ordered to not take a job where he would work in any way with minors in the state of New Jersey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In February 2019, leaders of the Catholic Church in New Jersey had published the names of 186 members that had been sanctioned by the church, charged with a crime or both. Hadmel Frias Gat\u00f3n (DeFrias) is on the list. The publishing of the list was to help victims heal as more revelations have been made in recent months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more:
NBC News<\/a>
Listin<\/g> Diario<\/a>
El Tiempo<\/a>
Hoy<\/a>
NY Daily News<\/a>
Bishop Accountability<\/a>
NYPost<\/a>

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25 March 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the story broke on NBC News on Friday, 22 March 2019, 47-year old former priest Hadmel Fr\u00edas Gat\u00f3n (Hadmels DeFrias) found himself without a job by the following Monday. He had been teaching English at a private school, Colegio del Caribe, in Pueblo B\u00e1varo, a residential area in Punta Cana since February 2018. Fr\u00edas … <\/p>\n

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