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Ladies and gentlemen, this week's edition of the show is mainly the year in rebuke,

but some stories that deserve rebuke at the top of the program.

From News of the Godly, admitted child rapist and retired Roman Catholic priest Lawrence

Hecker have told you about him on previous broadcasts.

Just a little more than a week after he began serving a life sentence, he up and died, as they say down south. He up and died. He was 93, pleaded guilty

earlier this month to charges he had kidnapped and raped a teenager in 1975. He received a

mandatory sentence of life imprisonment just about a week ago.

Natural causes?

Sure.

What else?

His client was eventually to be sent to Angola, Louisiana's maximum security state pen.

He could have been in the rodeo.

The child rape survivor who successfully pursued criminal charges against Hecker

said over the weekend he felt vindicated and free upon learning of his abusers' death.

I can't find any words of kindness for his passing, the survivor said.

The words, may he rest in peace, are so hollow.

I hope he spends eternity in hell after God's judgment of him, unquote, or at least in heck,

came to be one of the faces of the New Orleans Catholic Church's decades-old clerical molestation scandal.

That's a nice thing for a church to have.

Had been protected from justice by his religious superiors for most of his life.

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