{"id":12691,"date":"2017-03-06T21:42:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T02:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=12691"},"modified":"2017-03-16T21:36:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T01:36:02","slug":"priest-at-center-of-sex-abuse-cases-dies-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2017\/03\/06\/priest-at-center-of-sex-abuse-cases-dies-in-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"Priest At Center of Sex Abuse Cases Dies In Custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12692\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2017\/03\/06\/priest-at-center-of-sex-abuse-cases-dies-in-custody\/louis-miller-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Louis-MIller-2.jpg?fit=315%2C267&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"315,267\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1488836446&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Louis MIller (2)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Louis-MIller-2.jpg?fit=315%2C267&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Louis-MIller-2.jpg?resize=300%2C254\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Louis-MIller-2.jpg?resize=300%2C254&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Louis-MIller-2.jpg?w=315&amp;ssl=1 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nA prison official says a former priest who was at the center of a church sex-abuse scandal in Kentucky has died while in custody.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Kentucky Department of Corrections spokeswoman Lisa Lamb as saying that Louis Miller died Saturday (3\/5) morning after a lengthy illness. Miller was sentenced in 2003 to 30 years in prison on criminal convictions in Jefferson and Oldham counties for sexually abusing 29 children between the 1950s and 1980s. The following year, Pope John Paul II removed Miller from the priesthood.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 people publicly accused Miller of molesting them. He was a key figure in a series of lawsuits filed against the Archdiocese of Louisville that resulted in a $25.7 million settlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prison official says a former priest who was at the center of a church sex-abuse scandal in Kentucky has died while in custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-3iH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 19:03:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12693,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12691\/revisions\/12693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}