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	Bad Moves: Addendum A Paper Trail through the Orange Diocese's Darkest Episode By Gustavo Arellano Orange County Weekly September 27, 2007 http://www.ocweekly.com/features/features/bad-moves-addendum/27840/ 1. 1988 letter by Urell to the Franciscan superiors of Gary Pacheco, alerting them that the Orange diocese no longer wanted him after fielding a molestation allegation against him. 2. 1987 letter from Urell to Eleuterio Ramos. The priest was in Tijuana after admitting to molesting a teenage boy while at Anaheim¹s St. Anthony Claret in 1985, just one of the more than 25 children he molested in the Orange and Los Angeles diocese over a 20-year career. 3. 1993 letter by Urell asking Tijuana Bishop Emilio Berlie to remove Ramos from a children¹s ministry. 4. Check by Urell to pay for therapy of Ramos victim. 5. 2001 Urell note to a psychologist complaining that her treatment of a Ramos victim "could be at odds with the Catholic Church moral teachings in the way you might suggest that [the victim] deal with this issue, which, in itself, if experienced outside of the marriage bond, is contrary to our Church teaching." 6.Urell e-mail complaining that a Ramos victim was "getting the best help he can at $140 per hour." 7. 2001 note by a psychologist treating a Ramos victim to Urell stating she was "deeply impressed by the church¹s willingness to make reparation to [the victim] by paying for his therapy without any intervention of the judicial system (a process which [the victim] wants to avoid)." 8.Notes from a 1993 conversation, between Urell and a mother who claimed Michael Pecharich molested her son in the 1970s. 9. 1996 notes where Pecharich confesses to Urell he previously molested a boy during the 1980s. 10. Follow-up notes between Urell and Pecharich victim where Urell claims the diocese contacted Child Protective Services. Pecharich wasn't removed from the ministry until 2002.
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