‘Catholic church worker sexually abused girl, 13, and treated her as his “lover”‘
An IT employee working at a Catholic Church sexually abused a 13 year old girl and called her his ‘lover’ while she and her 8-year-old sister spent the night at his house, police said.
Ronald M See, a close friend of the girls’ family, worked at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Texas and was taken into custody on Tuesday.
The mother told authorities that her daughter said she was scared during the night and went into See’s room to sleep on the floor, but the teen confessed in a forensic interview that See woke her up in the middle of the night and took her to his room where he performed sexual acts on her.
When the mother questioned See, he told her that he had slept on the floor and her daughter slept in the bed, court documents showed.
The 13-year-old had text conversations with See for two weeks before the incident, which the mother mother said were ‘very disturbing in nature,’ according to the documents.
Her mother said See was treating her daughter like she was his ‘girlfriend or lover’ and found exchanges of inappropriate pictures between the two of them, according to court documents.
Some of the messages included See and the girl talking about looking at wedding rings and marriage, authorities said in the documents.
When the mother picked the girl’s up the next morning, her 8-year-old said that her sister had spent the night and most of the morning in See’s bedroom, according to court records.
According to court documents, Ronald M See was charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child under the age of 14.
Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston released a statement which said that while the girls were not students at the school, the employee, who had worked at the school for 14 years, has been suspended and they are cooperating with authorities on the investigation.
‘His job responsibilities did not include working with minors,’ the statement said. ‘He submitted to three criminal background checks by the parish as an employee, with the most recent in 2018. We have contacted the Montgomery County District Attorney’s office and have assured them of our complete cooperation in its investigation and prosecution of this matter.’
Ronald M See was charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child under the age of 14, according to court documents.
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