Friday, August 22, 2008

Priest tried to order porn movie, lied to victim's parents
Anaheim police, county probation pushed for sex-offender listing, but didn't get it.

SANTA ANA – A Catholic priest sentenced to 180 days in jail this week for taking a 17-year-old parishioner to a motel room had tried to rent a pornographic movie and lied to the victim’s parents about the teen’s whereabouts, according to court records made public today.

The Rev. Luis Eduardo Ramirez, ousted from Our Lady of the Pillar in Santa Ana after his January arrest, told the victim’s parents that he was taking their son to a youth seminar the night of Jan. 3, Orange County Deputy Probation Officer Vicki L. Pedrin wrote in a Aug. 7th probation report.

Instead, the priest drove to a restaurant in Orange where he ordered two margaritas for the victim, then brought the boy to Cortona Inn and Suites in Anaheim, the report says. There, the priest rented a room, and tried to order a pornographic film.

“The clerk remembered the defendant because he came in twice to pay for the movie, since adult movies cost more,â€