Let me get this straight.
Father Ain’t It Long Though coerces adult women and gets life. Adam Hoffman sexually assaults a young child and doesn’t even get thirty days in jail, and Jacob Andersen, the /Baylor Frat Boy Rapist got adjudicated then shortly thereafter went to jail because he wanted to sexually molest, or did, an infant. We had a dog beater yesterday get five years by the way. Hmmm.
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Published: Jun. 1, 2026 at 5:39 PM CDT|Updated: 20 hours ago
WACO, Texas (KWTX) – BREAKING: Former Central Texas priest Anthony Odiong has been sentenced to life in prison for his first-degree felony sexual assault conviction in Waco.
Odiong will be eligible for parole in 30 years and will be given credit for the two years he already served in jail while he awaiting trial.
Odiong was also sentenced to 20 years in prison for each of his two second degree sexual assault convictions. All three prison sentences will be served concurrently.
The disgraced priest was also ordered to pay fines totaling $30,000.
This is a developing story.
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Sentencing phase: Ex-Baylor students testify Father Anthony Odiong touched them inappropriately
Three more women, including two former Baylor University students, testified Monday that former Central Texas priest Anthony Odiong made inappropriate sexual advances toward them while they sought his spiritual guidance.
The women testified during the punishment phase of the 57-year-old Odiong’s sexual assault trial in Waco’s 19th State District Court.
A jury of eight women and four men convicted the Nigerian native on Friday of one count of first-degree felony sexual assault and two second-degree felony sexual assault counts in cases involving two women.
Testimony during the five-day trial revealed Odiong, who served in Waco, West, Louisiana, Rome, Florida and other locations, victimized as many as nine women, including one in Luling, La., who had his daughter in 2023.
Defense attorneys Gerald Villarrial and Carolina Truesdale called three of Odiong’s local supporters in defense of Odiong and intend to call one more witness Tuesday morning before the case is turned over to the jury to decide Odiong’s fate.
Odiong, who is seeking probation, faces up to life in prison on the first-degree count and up to 20 years in prison on the other two counts.
Jurors also learned Monday that Odiong has racked up $24,534 in phone charges in the nearly two years he has been in the McLennan County Jail waiting for his cases to be resolved.
In prosecution punishment phase testimony, a 2013 Baylor graduate who was contemplating becoming a nun testified Monday she became confused about the obedience she owed priests after Odiong uncomfortably delved into her personal life.
She asked him to hear her confession, which she said he did in his office behind closed doors at St. Peter Student Center on the Baylor campus. She said Odiong touched her knee and encouraged her to marry someone at the parish and dissuaded her from becoming a nun.
He said he hugged her and she felt what she thought was his erection. She said he kissed her hand, rubbed her hand on his face and told her no other woman has ever made him feel that way.
She said he later apologized after she confronted him on social media. She reported the incident to the bishop in Austin, but told jurors “nothing ever came from it.”
Another woman testified Monday that Odiong hugged her tightly and “nibbled my ear” while she also was a Baylor student.
“It felt weird for sure and was not OK,” she told prosecutors Liz Buice and Ryan Calvert.
She testified that Odiong offered her alcohol as a young student. When she reminded him she was not yet 21, he said, “You are still a baby. It will be our little secret,” she said. She also told the jury that as she was nearing graduation, Odiong hugged her, grabbed her buttocks and “squeezed with both hands.”
She said Odiong also revealed things to her that he had heard during the confessions of some of her fellow students.
In other prosecution testimony, a woman who met Odiong when he was a priest in Luling, La., testified he kissed her while she was crying and sharing troubles in her life with him. She pulled away, but he pulled her closer and kissed her again, she said.
“I was shocked and confused and I really didn’t know how to feel,” she said.
Years later, she and a friend went to visit Odiong in Florida, and they stayed at his home. They slept in separate bedrooms, she said, telling the jury that she woke up and Odiong was standing over her bed.
She cried out and he pulled the blankets over her head and ran out of the room, she said. She got up and locked the door.
The next morning, Odiong told her he didn’t remember the incident.
In defense punishment testimony, Carolyn Pustejovsky, whose son, Joey, was killed in the April 2013 West fertilizer plant explosion, worked with Odiong as the parish secretary at St. Mary’s Church of the Assumption.
She described him as “very meek,” mild and eager to please, always a gentleman. He never made her feel uncomfortable and she told Villarrial Odiong absolutely would follow the rules and regulations of probation should the jury decide to recommend it.
Jonathan Guin, of Nashville, Tenn., said he met Odiong in Luling, La., in 2016.
“If it wasn’t for Father Anthony, I wouldn’t be sitting here in front of you. I’d be dead,” he said.
He explained he suffered from “generational drug addiction and alcoholism” and had been given two years to live when he said Odiong performed what he called an exorcism on him.
“God used him to touch me,” Guin said. “… the roar of those demons getting ripped out of me will turn you to God.”
He said he talks to Odiong every day on the phone and continues to support him every way he can, including financially.
Calvert asked Guin if he knew Odiong sexually assaulted women over the years and had fathered a child three years ago.
Guin quoted the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk and said, “When you play adult games, you get adult prizes.”
Guin also called Odiong a good candidate for probation and said he is sure he can abide by all the terms and conditions the court places on him.
Calvert reminded Guin that the Catholic Diocese of Austin stripped Odiong in September 2018 of the authority to engage in any priestly activities but he continued to do so. He asked him if he didn’t obey the Catholic church, what makes him think he would obey court orders.
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