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The documents show MacArthur was sentenced to state prison in for attempted rape of a disabled woman in a nursing home in El Paso. Flores met him when he was El Paso's bishop in , the records say, a year before he became San Antonio's archbishop. He pleaded guilty in to three counts of molesting girls in Wisconsin and was sentenced to six months in jail.

Tahira Khan Merritt, a Fort Worth attorney who has sued dioceses in Texas on behalf of child sex abuse clients, described MacArthur's case an example of how the church's sex abuse scandal has been ongoing.

Catholic leaders allowed MacArthur to stay under the radar as a child sex offender for decades without reporting him to law enforcement, she said. In , why is this not publicized more widely?

In , he was ordained to the Diocese of Sioux Falls. A decade later, he was pastor of St. Peter the Apostle parish in Platte, South Dakota, where he sexually abused three girls, sisters, at their home. The oldest he took to a hotel for one episode, a lawsuit deposition states. He molested the other two in his rectory, he admitted.

He resurfaced at St. William's parish in Ramona, South Dakota, where two girls, 10 and 11, claimed he touched them inappropriately.

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