One survivor says local archbishop ‘should have been sitting right there next to’ abuser Lawrence Hecker at his hearing

The clergy abuse survivor who successfully pursued a child rape charge against retired Roman Catholic priest Lawrence Hecker in New Orleans says the local archbishop “should have been sitting right there next to” the serial molester clergyman at his criminal sentencing hearing on Wednesday.

A statement issued by the survivor after the 93-year-old Hecker received a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment Wednesday alluded to how New Orleans archbishop Gregory Aymond has repeatedly expressed a desire in the media to “walk with” the victims of the worldwide Catholic church’s decades-old clergy molestation scandal.