MOBILE (AL)
Al.com
The Associated Press
8/9/03 1:33 PM
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A former Roman Catholic high school educator has been indicted on charges alleging he lured two teenage boys under the age of 16 into sexual relationships in the early 1990s.
The indictment was returned by a Mobile County grand jury against 74-year-old Brother Nicholas Paul Bendillo, also known as “Brother Vic,” who worked at McGill-Toolen High School from 1959 until 1998. It charges him with two counts of enticing a child for immoral purposes and two counts of second-degree sexual abuse.
The indictment was returned Friday against Bendillo, who was removed from his job in 1998 following abuse complaints against him. He spent time in a treatment center, according to the Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile, and now lives in New Orleans at the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, a religious order of male teachers.
Bendillo’s attorney, Donald Briskman, said he would be contacting the district attorney’s office Monday to make arrangements for Bendillo to appear and respond to the charges. A date for arraignment was not set immediately.
Briskman also said the cases against his client concern alleged crimes that occurred “a decade ago. I am certainly curious to see what evidence the state has to support these charges.”