TANGIPAHOA PARISH, La. — Painful memories and emotional turmoil overwhelmed Chad Becnel and his family last month when the Louisiana Department of Corrections mistakenly released a former Catholic school teacher and coach who had sexually molested him and at least 16 other boys in the 1980s and 1990s.
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The archdiocese has long maintained its hands were tied and lawyers advised them they could not suspend Matherne based on a single, unverified complaint. TANGIPAHOA PARISH, La. - Painful memories and emotional turmoil overwhelmed Chad Becnel and his family last month when the Louisiana Department of Corrections mistakenly released a former Catholic school teacher and coach who had sexually molested him and at least 16 other boys in the 1980s and 1990s.
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