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This 2010 photo provided to The Associated Press shows the main building of the Topu Honis children's shelter in Kutet, East Timor. Foreign donors, tourists and aid workers who made the three-hour hike up the steep, narrow jungle path to the shelter were met by a grandfatherly priest who was often surrounded by laughing kids playing hopscotch in matching uniforms. (AP Photo)

Defrocked US priest revered in East Timor accused of abuse

By MARGIE MASON and ROBIN MCDOWELL - Associated Press

A police officer escorts Richard Daschbach, left, a former missionary from Pennsylvania, U.S. upon his arrival for a trial at a courthouse in Oecusse, East Timor, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. The defrocked American priest went on trial Tuesday to face charges he sexually abused young girls at his shelter for orphans and children from impoverished families, marking the first clergy sex case to emerge in East Timor, the most Catholic place in the world outside the Vatican. (AP Photo/Raimundos Oki)

Ex-US priest on trial in East Timor on sex abuse charges

By RAIMUNDOS OKI - Associated Press

A police officer escorts Richard Daschbach, center, a former missionary from Pennsylvania, U.S. upon his arrival for a trial at a courthouse in Oecusse, East Timor, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. The defrocked American priest was set to go on trial Monday to face allegations he sexually abused young girls at a children's shelter he ran in a remote enclave in East Timor — one of the most Catholic places on Earth. (AP Photo)

East Timor postpones child sex abuse trial of ex-US priest

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American priest in East Timor embroiled in abuse scandal

By OKI RAIMUNDOS - Associated Press