BURBANK, CA -- February 4, 2013--KCET's award winning hard-hitting award-winning nightly new program SoCal Connected reports that the Los Angeles Archdiocese was made aware, in 2001, that defrocked priest Joseph Pina had applied for a job with the Los Angeles Unified School district after resigning in disgrace from the church in 1998. Recently released church documents reveal Pina began having sexual relations with a 16 year-old girl while he was still an active clergyman. The documents detail his admission that he became attracted to the young girl after seeing her dressed as Snow White when she was in the eighth grade.

Link to full story on SoCal Connected.org:

http://www.kcet.org/shows/socal_connected/rawfeed/religion/update-la-archdiocese-says-it-warned-lausd-not-to-hire-former-priest.html

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