The Catholic parish priest accused of molesting a 16-year-old girl in Solana, Cagayan last year gave himself up to the police on Friday, authorities said in a belated report on Saturday, March 4. CDNDigital
Fr. Karole Reward Israel, 29, assistant parish priest of St. Vincent Ferrer Parish Convent in Solana, surrendered after receiving the arrest warrant issued on March 1 by Judge Dennis Mendoza of the Regional Trial Court-Branch 4 in this city.
During the National Bureau of Investigation’s probe last year, the girl recounted the violations allegedly committed by the priest on her. Israel was caught in a rescue operation in Barangay Iraga on Oct. 18, 2022, after he allegedly molested the victim again inside his car near the Iraga Elementary School and Iraga Presbyterian Church.The NBI said the girl, sent by her parents to the parish to serve God beginning in December 2019, was a parish youth minister serving as lector, commentator, and choir member on Sunday Masses, wedding and funeral Masses, and other Church activities.
They first met inside the convent as the priest was staying there and the girl was a youth minister. They later became close with each other, the NBI report said.
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