Though the charges against him stemmed from a single incident in 1975, prosecutors said several men had been prepared to testify at trial that Hecker also sexually abused them.

Ex-priest Hecker receives life in prison for 1975 rape after a trial complicated by his health and judicial changes.

A New Orleans judge has sentenced a 93-year-old former Catholic priest to spend the rest of his life behind bars for raping a teenage boy in the 1970s