Former Harford priest accused of making child pornography - The Aegis

A Bel Air man, who years ago served as a priest at St. Ignatius Church in Hickory, has been charged with making and possessing pornographic photos involving young boys, according to court records.

Fernando Cristancho, 61, of the 800 block of Hayden Way, served as a priest from 1999 to 2002 at St. Ignatius Church in Hickory, according to a statement on the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s website, www.archbalt.org.

Members of the Harford County Child Advocacy Center, which investigates allegations of child abuse, executed a search and seizure warrant Sept. 19 at Cristancho’s home, according to charging documents.

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Archdiocese: former Baltimore area priest admits to sexually abusing minor - ABC2News.com

The Archdiocese of Baltimore has banned a priest from serving or returning to work within the diocese after they say he admitted to sexual abuse of a minor.

The Archdiocese said Fr. Jorge Antonio Velez-Lopez had sexual contact with a teenage girl multiple times beginning in 2007 and possibly continuing into 2010, the last year Velez-Lopez served within the diocese.

The information came to light in January when the victim told the Archdiocese about it, a spokesperson for the Archdiocese said Friday. The Archdiocese says they began looking into it immediately and filed charges with the Howard County Police Department, where Valez-Lopez served at St. John the Evangelist in Columbia from 2003 to 2010.

The victim was a parishioner at Resurrection of Our Lord Parish in Laurel, the spokesman said.

Valez-Lopez also ministered to members of Spanish-speaking communities at Resurrection of Our Lord, Holy Trinity in Glen Burnie, St. John the Evangelist in Frederick, Sacred Heart in Glyndon and St. Joseph in Cockeysville.

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The Catholic Review > Home > Baltimore archdiocese releases official statement regarding allegation against high school teacher-coach

The following is an official statement from the Archdiocese of Baltimore:

The Archdiocese of Baltimore has received an allegation involving Ms. Catherine Czapski, 24, who has served as soccer and track/cross-country coach and substitute teacher at Bishop Walsh School, a K-12 Catholic school in Cumberland, Maryland. Catherine Czapski is alleged to have engaged in sexual activity with a minor female student at the school.

The allegation was brought to the attention of the Archdiocese through an anonymous phone call to its Office of Child & Youth Protection.  The Archdiocese was able to determine the source of the call and reported the matter to the Allegany County State’s Attorney’s Office and to the Department and Child Protective Services of the Department of Social Services.  Today, civil authorities in Allegany County charged Catherine Czapski with five counts of fourth degree sex offense by a person in position of authority.

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A former soccer coach at Bishop Walsh High School in Cumberland has been charged with having an inappropriate relationship with a student at the school.

According to the Allegany County Combined Criminal Investigation Unit (C3I), Catherine Martha Czapski, 24, of Cumberland, was arrested Tuesday after a criminal summons had been issued charging her with five counts of fourth degree sex offense by a person in a position of authority.

The charges are the result of an investigation into allegations that Czapski, who was the girl’s soccer coach at Bishop Walsh at the time, was engaged in an inappropriate sexual relationship with a 17-year-old female student at the school.