A newspaper is reporting that an ex-priest who was convicted of
child sex crimes is now at a North Carolina “spiritual center.” We
think, this is a dangerous move and we urge his colleagues and
supervisors to oust him.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution spoke recently with William
Groves, a now-defrocked priest who pled guilty to felony abuse and
sheltering “runaway Indian and Hispanic kids and giving them drugs and
alcohol.” In June 2015, he was vice treasurer at the Spiritual Light
Center in Franklin, North Carolina. Two local citizens told us they
began to be suspicious when Groves repeatedly offered to set up a
children’s program at the Center even though there were few children
among the members there.