US priest’s sentence offer for molesting child too lenient, alleged victim says

Patrick Wattigny, a former school chaplain outside New Orleans, is considering a guilty plea but could be out of prison in three years

A Louisiana man accusing a Roman Catholic priest of molesting him as a child has spoken out against what he says is an overly lenient sentence being offered to the defendant in exchange for a guilty plea.

The accuser, 24, is pressing a criminal case against Patrick Wattigny, who worked as a chaplain at the alleged victim’s high school and was charged with abuse against him in 2013.