Hecker was also contradictory about his long-range memory during the deposition. He demonstrated a razor-sharp recall of exactly what church he was working at during specific years as far back as ...

A disgraced 93-year-old New Orleans priest pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges involving the sexual assault of a teenage boy in 1975. Hecker entered his plea to aggravated kidnapping, aggravated ...

Archbishop Gregory Aymond knew of nine allegations facing disgraced priest Lawrence Hecker in 2012. The church didn't out him as a sexual predator until six years later.

Retired Priest Lawrence Hecker, 92, who admitted to having sex with underage boys, was apparently in a UMC hospital on Friday ahead of his pretrial hearing.

The retired priest, Lawrence Hecker, 91, faces charges of aggravated rape, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated crime against nature and theft, the district attorney of New Orleans, Jason Williams ...

Hecker was eventually arrested in 2023 for rape and kidnapping. WDSU asked Aymond if he thought Hecker should be in jail. “I have Mass this evening,” Aymond said in 2023.

Lawrence Hecker, the former Catholic priest who pleaded guilty earlier this to raping an underage boy decades ago, has died just days after receiving a sentence of life in prison without parole.

Lawrence Hecker, the geriatric former New Orleans priest accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy nearly 50 years ago, must undergo further evaluation to determine if his displays of dementia ...