Ex-Stripper Says Miami Priest Fathered Her Child, Wants Child Support

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Ex-Stripper Says Miami Priest Fathered Her Child, Wants Child Support

Former stripper Beatrice Hernandez recently made the shocking claim that longtime Miami area Catholic priest David Dueppen is the father of her child. The Miami Archdiocese is now in the midst of its second sex scandal in just a few short months. In May, the popular television priest Alberto Cutié (aka Father Oprah) admitted to carrying on an affair with Ruhamma Canellis, whom he subsequently married.

Hernandez says that she first met Dueppen when he walked into Porky's, the strip club she used to dance in. The encounter led to an on-again, off-again seven year affair that ended in January and resulted in her new baby, Marilyn Epiphany Hernandez.

Dueppen is on leave from his associate priest position at St. Maximilian Kolbe Church in Pembroke Pines. Apparently, the church has long known of the couple's relationship. Three years ago, the archdiocese paid Hernandez a settlement related to the affair.

Now, Hernandez has filed a petition for a restraining order and requested child support. She says that Dueppen became violent with her while they discussed paternity and child support and grabbed her by the throat, attempting to choke her. "He is the devil," Hernandez, 42, who has DNA test results confirming Dueppen as the father, told the Miami Herald. "He is the devil dressed as
an angel."

2 Comments
Both of these men are a disgrace to the church and the priesthood, It goes to show you that there is no respect for anything or anyone these days not even in the church setting. Why would a priest walk into a strip club? when they're supposed to take a vow of chastity, etc. It's very clear that the congregation knew what was going on and I guess the only way they felt they could make it right was to write out a check. This type of hypocrisy from doesn't suprise me in the least.
This was very shameful on the part of the priest to be involved with such kind of controversy. Priest are deemed to be sacred, how come they were able to commit such kind of forbidden act. It may be worth to have a cash advance to divert the issue and bring back the respect of the people to the Priest who had been claimed to be the Father of the Marilyn Epiphany Hernandez.
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