ALBUQUERQUE – A former Catholic priest on the Santa Fe Archdiocese’s list of clergy members credibly accused of sexually abusing children has been arrested.
Marvin Archuleta was arrested Friday in Albuquerque after the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office filed a criminal complaint accusing the 80-year-old of child rape and kidnapping.
According to court documents, Archuleta raped a 6-year-old boy attending the Holy Cross Catholic Church in Santa Cruz, New Mexico, during the mid-1980s.
The charges follow the state attorney general’s office serving a pair of search warrants on the Archdiocese of Santa Fe in October. The office sought documents related to two former New Mexico priests accused of sexually abusing children.
No attorney was listed for Archuleta.
