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FILE - This Sept. 21, 2019, file booking image made from video and provided by the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office in New Orleans, La., shows George Brignac. Brignac, a longtime Roman Catholic deacon and schoolteacher awaiting trial on rape charges in New Orleans, died Monday, June 29, 2020, after a brief hospitalization. (Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

Former New Orleans deacon, 85, dies awaiting rape trial

By JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

This Sept. 21, 2019 booking image made from video and provided by the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office in New Orleans, La., shows George F. Brignac. Brignac, a longtime schoolteacher and deacon was arrested Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019, on one count of first-degree rape, more than a year after a former altar boy told New Orleans police that Brignac repeatedly raped him four decades ago. (Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office via AP)

In New Orleans, hope for justice seen in ex-deacon’s arrest

By JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press