Ex-Priest Lawrence Hecker Pleads Guilty to Decades-Old Rape Charges
In a pivotal moment of justice long delayed, former priest Lawrence Hecker, 93, pleaded guilty to all charges against him as his trial was set to begin. Hecker faced charges of aggravated rape, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated crime against nature, and theft for the 1975 assault of a teenage boy in a church—a crime that remained […]