Parole Revoked for Priest Guilty of Molesting : Crime: He is sentenced to six years in prison after admitting that he violated his parole by being alone with a youth.

A Catholic priest convicted in 1986 of molesting four altar boys in his Huntington Beach parish admitted Wednesday that he violated his parole and was immediately sentenced to six years in state prison.

In a brief hearing here, Father Andrew Christian Andersen told Orange County Superior Court Judge Luis A. Cardenas that he was not contesting a charge that he had been with a boy in New Mexico and without being accompanied by another adult, a condition of his parole when Cardenas gave him a suspended six-year prison sentence in 1986. The judge also noted that the condition was approved by Andersen’s probation officer.

“Are you admitting that you violated the terms of your parole?” Cardenas asked Andersen.

In a husky voice, Andersen answered: “Yes, I am, your honor.”

Andersen was arrested March 12 in Albuquerque, N.M., and accused of forcing a teen-age boy into his car, assaulting him and trying to sodomize him. The priest’s lawyer, William M. Monroe, said Wednesday that those criminal charges were not true. He said Andersen admits being with a boy but did not criminally assault him.

Orange County Deputy Dist. Atty. Michael Jacobs said a New Mexico grand jury has returned a child-molestation indictment against Andersen and that Andersen could be extradited back to that state for a separate trial on those charges.

Andersen had been in New Mexico since 1986 to take part in a therapy program at a Catholic-operated center in Jemez Springs. That therapy was one of the conditions of the five-year parole imposed by Cardenas four years ago.

Andersen was convicted on Sept. 29, 1986, on 26 counts of molesting four altar boys at St. Bonaventure Catholic Church in Huntington Beach between February, 1985, and March, 1986. Andersen had been a priest at St. Bonaventure since 1982.

Monroe said Andersen remains an ordained Catholic priest but was “suspended of priestly duties” by the Catholic Diocese of Orange County after his conviction, meaning that he cannot say Mass and dispense sacraments.

Outside court Wednesday, Jacobs said he was satisfied with the six-year prison sentence, adding: “He won’t be eligible for parole until three or four years.”

Jacobs said Andersen would remain in Orange County Jail until he is assigned to a state prison.