Now, 48 years later, the victim is as hopeful as ever that the man charged with raping him at a church attached to his school – Lawrence Hecker – will finally face justice, his attorney told ...

A grand jury indicted 93-year-old Hecker last year following an investigation that revealed the clergyman ... of a trial “really slaps you in the face,” Hjorstberg said.

After his historic guilty plea this week, one of Hecker’s accusers is speaking up to let sex abuse survivors know there is hope. The man WDSU spoke with did not want his identity revealed.

A grand jury indicted Hecker last year following an investigation that revealed he had confessed to molesting multiple juveniles over his decades of service with the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

The investigation into Hecker allegedly revealed what law enforcement has described as widespread cover-ups of allegations of rampant sexual abuses by clergy. In April, Louisiana State Police ...

CBS affiliate WWL-TV in New Orleans was interviewing Lawrence Hecker with the British newspaper the Guardian about a statement he gave to New Orleans church leaders in 1999 when he made the ...