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Texas, where Odiong also previously ministered, finally hold him to account by convicting him of criminal clergy sexual abuse. That shocking chain of events is laid out in more than 200 pages of in-house
priest who ministered in [Texas](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/texas) and south-east Louisiana and was charged with illicitly abusing his status as a clergyman to pursue sex with spiritually vulnerable female congregants began on Tuesday with
abusive financial control while ministering to them. A woman whom the publication did not interview brought a copy of the Guardian’s article on Odiong to Waco police and said he had sexually assaulted
priest served as pastor before being recently [convicted](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/29/texas-trial-catholic-priest-sexual-assault) in Texas of criminal clergy sexual assault and [sentenced to life in prison](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/02/anthony-odiong-catholic-priest-sentence) has been criticized by his victims and their
Texas jury on Tuesday began deliberating the sentence of a Roman Catholic priest who was [convicted](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/29/texas-trial-catholic-priest-sexual-assault) days earlier of criminal clergy sexual assault. [Anthony Odiong](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/31/anthony-odiong-accuser-speaks-out), 57, faces between five
convictions of molestation of a juvenile, Reed could be sentenced to between five and 40 years in prison. Another chapter in Reed’s past that did not come up in court involved the deaths
priest worked in campus ministry – and which requires workers to behave in a manner that is consistent with Christian values. Odiong would ultimately be convicted of sexually assaulting that woman because Texas law says there