WDSU Investigates has uncovered explosive and graphic documents linked to Lawrence Hecker.The former priest is accused of rape and kidnapping.On Tuesday, the accused child molester's attorneys tried to get him out of jail on a reduced bond, but that was denied.WDSU asked Hecker’s attorneys about Hecker being accused of choking and raping the alleged victim. “They have to prove it. We haven't seen any evidence to prove that yet,” attorney Bobby Hjortsberg said. The same day, WDSU Investigates obtained explosive records. Prosecutors say Hecker is a serial child abuser and rapist and a diagnosed pedophile who continues to possess child pornography. The records cite Hecker’s testimony, doctors, and records from the archdiocese.Prosecutors say Hecker is a confessed child sex abuser and rapist.Prosecutors said Hecker has been indicted for attacking, imprisoning, choking and raping a juvenile.The records say not only will the victim of this crime testify, but also the entire weight of Hecker's career of sexual abuse and rape will be presented to the court. Prosecutors say for several years, defense counsel has been privy to thousands of unredacted Archdiocese documents that memorialize Hecker's serial child sex abuse.Records show Hecker also state Hecker has the strongest possible motive to flee the jurisdiction.Court records allege by 2012, at least nine individuals had been documented by the archdiocese as victims.The records show Hecker allegedly admitted to the sexual abuse of at least one developmentally challenged adult. In 1999, the archdiocese sent Hecker for evaluation. Records show he was diagnosed as a pedophile, rendering him to be at some risk for further sexual misconduct. Prosecutors say Hecker admitted to multiple instances of child sex abuse. Here's what Hecker states in one document, "With shame, I report a time of my life from about the beginning of 1968 to about 1980. It was a time of great change in the world and the church and I succumbed to its zeitgeist."A record shows Hecker saying, "I evidently didn't have a bad reputation...each year when a list of which students had sign up for spiritual directors, I had the most."The report said Hecker is a risk for further sexual misconduct. In 2012, a letter was written to Archbishop Gregory Aymond from the archdiocese victim's assistance coordinator. The letter says this is the ninth allegation we have on record against Hecker. Hecker wasn't removed until 2002 and kept his retirement benefits until 2020 when the church filed for bankruptcy.WDSU tracked Hecker down in June. "There is good and bad in everybody,” Hecker said.WDSU asked Hecker if he'd ever touched a child.“Oh my goodness, you mean touch a child?” Hecker said.WDSU also asked him, "Have you ever physically or sexually assaulted a child?"“I am afraid there's some trick or something. I just don't want to get involved with all this,” Hecker said.WDSU also asked, "Have you ever in your life as a former priest touched a child?"“No comment,” Hecker said."So, as you, a former priest, ever touched a child?"No comment."Hecker was arrested this September. Prosecutors say Hecker was moved from assignment to assignment and put in contact with victims over and over again. The Archdiocese of New Orleans issued the following statement Tuesday. “The Archdiocese of New Orleans reported all known allegations against Lawrence Hecker to law enforcement in 2002. Hecker has been removed from ministry without priestly faculties since 2002. In 2012 when law enforcement made us aware of this allegation the archdiocese moved quickly to pastorally respond to this survivor.”Hecker has pleaded not guilty. Stay with WDSU on this developing investigation.