Priest Pleads Guilty to Molesting Children
As his victims sat behind him in a Louisville courtroom, a retired Roman Catholic priest pleaded guilty to sexually abusing 21 children.
“I remember these children very well,” Father Louis E. Miller said as the judge read the names of each victim. “I remember fondling these children.”
Miller, 72, pleaded guilty as his trial was about to begin in Jefferson County Circuit Court on 44 counts of indecent and immoral practices and six counts of sexual abuse. He faces trial on similar charges in neighboring Oldham County in June, plus dozens of civil suits.
Miller, who retired last year after the accusations became public, also is accused of abuse in more than 80 of the 214 lawsuits filed in the last year against the Archdiocese of Louisville.
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