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Ridgefield parents shocked after church choir director arrested on rape charges

Ridgefield parents are shocked Wednesday after hearing a church choir director is accused of statutory rape. Saint Andrew?s Lutheran Church choir director Omar Rodriguez was arrested Tuesday after a

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