Catholic priest sexual abuse accuser hopes for conviction: ‘Where’s his suffering for it?’

Greg Livaudais alleges abuse by Lawrence Hecker in 1974 - and wonders why the retired priest, 92, isn't already in jail

As the retired Roman Catholic priest Lawrence Hecker awaits trial on rape and kidnapping charges in New Orleans, one of his many alleged victims wonders why Hecker isn't facing more arrests in jurisdictions across south Louisiana. For years, Greg Livaudais, 66, has seen news coverage of the church abuse scandal - and it has stirred up painful memories of sexual abuse he allegedly suffered at Hecker's hands in February 1974, when Livaudais was 16.

Those triggers started in 2002, when national news about a widespread cover-up in the Boston archdiocese prompted Livaudais to file a complaint against Hecker with the archdiocese of New Orleans in April of that year, when he was 44.