UPDATED::Conroe Catholic priest Manuel La Rosa-Lopez charged with indecency with a child in sex abuse scandal allegations | abc13.com

UPDATE::  Grand jury indicts former Conroe priest on child sex abuse charges

A grand jury on Thursday indicted a former Conroe priest on charges stemming from child sex abuse allegations, according to court records.

Manuel La Rosa-Lopez was indicted on two of the four counts of indecency with a child that led to his Sept. 11 arrest, records show. The two charges stem from incidents alleged to have happened to a female parishioner on April 9, 2000, while the cleric was assigned to Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Montgomery County.

 Two more charges of indecency with a child — in connection to allegations from a male parishioner — have not yet been presented to a grand jury and the investigation remains ongoing, said Tyler Dunman, the head of Montgomery County District Attorney's Office Special Crimes Bureau.

A possible sex abuse scandal involving a local priest is unfolding.

Two people have come forward, saying that Father Manuel La Rosa-Lopez sexually abused children while working at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Conroe in the late 1990s to early 2000s.

La Rosa-Lopez is charged with four counts of indecency with a child. He turned himself in to authorities at the Montgomery County Jail on Tuesday.

La Rosa-Lopez currently is assigned to a church in Richmond.

According to court documents, the two alleged victims are not linked, but each came forward recently after seeing news coverage of sex abuse by priests.

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