Priest sex abuse trial moved to July 2022

A case alleging complicity in the rape of a child against several Catholic entities scheduled to begin in December 2021 has been moved to July 2022.

The case was originally scheduled to go before a jury December 13, 2021, but that trial date was canceled due to a scheduling error, court records show.

A pre-trial conference is set for June 9, 2022 in front of New Mexico 2nd Judicial District Judge Daniel Ramczyk, with the jury trial expected to begin at 8 a.m. July 11, 2022.

The case was filed by a John Doe against several parishes, dioceses and the Servants of the Paraclete, alleging each was complicit in allowing Fr. David Holley, who moved to Alamogordo in the 1970s, to sexually abuse the complainant.

Holley was sent to the Albuquerque Servants of the Paraclete facility in 1971 so that he could get help for pedophilic tendencies.

He was eventually relocated to what is now St. Jude Catholic Parish in Alamogordo. At the time, the church was the St. Jude Mission Church.