The District Attorney of Washington and St. Tammany Parishes is moving forward with prosecution of Patrick Brian Wattigny.
The former Slidell area priest was arrested back in October on suspicion of molestation.
Wattigny initially fled the area to Georgia but was caught and extradited back to Louisiana.
Wattigny, 63, the former pastor of St. Luke the Evangelist Catholic Church and chaplain at Pope John Paul II High School, both in Slidell, is accused of molesting a teenager, then 15, between June 1, 2013, and August 31, 2014.