Update:
Austin Police arrested a former priest for groping a woman last October.
The Catholic Dioceses of Austin reports Gerold Langsch, 75, was removed from service and has not been allowed to be Priest in Austin since February after failing to maintain proper boundaries with an adult, and while that incident didn’t involve physical contact. Austin Police arrested the man for one that did.
Detective Steven McCormick says the incident happened last October, when the then Father Langsch grouped a woman he was performing Last Rites upon and asked “if it felt good.” The victim was in hospice care and Det. McCormick says the arrest took so long because there were scheduling conflicts with the victim. He said it was only until recently did police have enough evidence to arrest Langsch.
Langsch faces a class A misdemeanor charge of assault by contact, he is currently out on bond.
Original:
An Austin priest is arrested after being accused of sexually assaulting a woman he was administering Last Rites to in October.
Court documents say 75-year-old Father Gerold Langsch faces a misdemeanor assault by contact charge after allegedly inappropriately touching her after anointing her with holy water and asked her “if it felt good”. The records say the woman was confused and “felt like a dirty piece of meat.” during the alleged incident. Langsch was named reverend of St. Paul’s Catholic Church in 2015. He bonded out of Travis County Jail with the condition that he stay away from the victim.
