Parents Sue Roman Catholic Priest, Rev. Luis Bonilla Margarito Over Sexual Relationship with their Then-Teenage Daughter

Roman Catholic priest Rev. Luis Bonilla Margarito sued by couple, who claims he carried on sexual relationship with their then-teenage daughter and impregnated her.

Here's a little reported story in the mainstream media. A Pennsylvania couple has sued a Roman Catholic priest, Rev. Luis A. Bonilla Margarito, after they secretly videotaped him having sex with their 18 year old daughter in the basement of their Berks County home.

According to Philly.com, the lawsuit alleges that Rev. Margarito carried on a sexual relationship with the teenager while he was chaplain of Reading Central Catholic High School and she was a senior there. They also accuse him of impregnating their daughter.

The girl's parents became suspicious and installed a camera in their basement, where Bonilla and the teenager were spending large amounts of time. The camera recorded the couple having sex in November 2009, after she graduated, according to the suit.

Her parents took the video to the Diocese of Allentown, which removed Bonilla from his dual posts as chaplain and pastor of St. Joseph Church in Reading when he acknowledged an "inappropriate relationship" with the teenager, according to a diocesan news release from last November.

Bonilla was sent to a treatment facility but "continued to have intimate contact with [the teenager] during this time period and ultimately impregnated her," the suit said. She recently gave birth to a girl. Source

I remember a similar situation during my high school years at Mt. Alvernia in Montego Bay, Jamaica. There was a priest named Father Pegg who impregnated a student at the all-girls school. He died in a car accident shortly before her pregnancy became obvious, but the news moved like a wildfire at the school. I will continue to maintain that Roman Catholic priests and nuns should be allowed to marry.