Priest in Conroe sex abuse cases sentenced to 10 years
CONROE โ Father Manuel Antonio La Rosa Lopez left a Conroe courtroom in manacles Wednesday after being sentenced to ten years in prison for two counts of indecency with a child. The cases stem from his sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy while La Rosa Lopez served as pastor at Conroeโs Sacred Heart Catholic Church in the โ90s. Nancy Hebert, one of the prosecutors who brought La Rosa Lopez to justice, said confronting La Rosa Lopez is a positive step in the victimsโ healing process. La Rosa Lopez will be immediately transferred to TDCJ to begin serving his sentence. In their statements, both victims criticized the Church for failing to protect them from La Rosa Lopez.