Black Collar Crime
July 25, 2007, 6:43 AM PDT
A former Catholic priest is scheduled to be arraigned Wedsneday morning on charges of molesting a boy while he was assigned to a Pacoima church.
George Miller, 69, of Oxnard, is charged with three felony counts of lewd acts on a child and three counts of sodomy of a person under 14. He was arrested Tuesday, and is being held on $600,000 bail.
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According to the District Attorney's Office, Miller met the victim when the boy was 5 years old. Miller befriended the victim's mother and became a frequent guest at the family's home, eventually taking the victim on overnight trips, prosecutors said.
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In 2002, Miller was arrested and charged with molesting three boys -- including the current victim's older brother -- in the 1970s and 1980s while assigned to the Pacoima church. That case was dropped, however, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a California law extending the statute of limitations on sex crimes was unconstitutional.
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