Hecker entered his plea to aggravated kidnapping, aggravated crime against nature, first-degree rape and theft before Campbell, moments before jury selection was scheduled to begin, multiple news ...

NEW ORLEANS — WWL Louisiana and the Guardian have obtained a long suppressed, eight-and-a-half-hour deposition of a 92-year-old Catholic priest charged with physically overpowering and raping a ...

A retired Catholic priest who worked in about a dozen New Orleans-area parishes admitted to his superiors more than 20 years ago that he had molested seven teenagers he met on the job, but he was ...

The long-sought charges against Lawrence Hecker come after public allegations that leaders in the Archdiocese of New Orleans knew about accusations against him for decades. By Ruth Graham A state ...

NEW ORLEANS — Former Catholic Priest Lawrence Hecker was sentenced to life in prison without parole Wednesday morning. Hecker, 93, pleaded guilty to all counts on December 3- aggravated rape ...

Lawrence Hecker, the former Catholic priest who pleaded guilty earlier this month to raping an underage boy decades ago, has died, according to our partners at WWL-TV. Hecker, 93, was sentenced to ...

Citing disrespect by prosecutors, Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Judge Benedict Willard abruptly recused himself Tuesday morning from the case of Lawrence Hecker, the former New Orleans ...

SO WE WERE THE ONLY STATION INSIDE THE COURTROOM WHEN THIS ALL HAPPENED IN COURT. HECKER’S ATTORNEYS SAYING THAT HE TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID TWO WEEKS AGO, AND HE HAD A UTI AND SOME BLOOD ...