NAVAL, Biliran — On Christmas Day in 2006, American priest Kenneth Bernard Pius Hendricks baptized a frail 2-month-old boy at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary (OLHR) Cathedral here. “Just imagine a foreign priest, an American at that, hiding in a Third World country and abusing its poor children. Philippine and American law enforcement officers have started piecing together a criminal case against Hendricks. He has been charged in Ohio with a federal crime as an American citizen engaging in illicit sexual acts in a foreign country. Revered by many of his parishioners and reviled by a few, Hendricks and his case could reveal if he is really a closeted pedophile or a pious pastor wrongly accused by his alleged detractors.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 19, 2018 21:43 UTC