I pass Los Banos on the way up to Norcal ever other month or so. It’s a blur of a city off of Interstate 5 that I’ve never visited. I’ll think differently about this little burg now that Rev. Robert Gamel, the local catholic priest, has been arrested for possession of child porn. I have this little map overlay in my head that allows me to point to a church and say, “The youth pastor there was arrested for…”
Gamel, 65, has been under investigation since Aug. 14, when church officials told police the now-former head of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Los Banos may have obtained from the Internet nude photographs of a teenage parishioner, according to court records obtained by the Merced Sun-Star.
- via mercedsunstar
Gamel had been celebrating mass with senior citizens until his arrest. Now that the authorities have credible evidence, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno will not allow him to work in ministry.
Gamel sounds like a creep. His victim is a teenage boy who Gamel stalked via the internet. He was caught because he bragged about his exploits.