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	Priest Accused of Abuse to Get 2nd Competency Hearing Associated Press, carried in WPRI September 25, 2007 http://www.eyewitnessnewstv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7126333&nav=F2DO Worcester, Mass. — A judge will decide if a retired Catholic priest accused of molesting two altar boys is competent to stand trial. A hearing for the Reverend John Szantyr is scheduled for November 19th. The 76-year-old Szantyr of Waterbury, Connecticut is charged with three counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14. The alleged sexual assaults occurred in the 1980s when Szantyr was assigned to Our Lady of Czestochowa parish in Worcester. Charges were brought in 2003. Szantyr — who suffers from Parkinson's disease — was already found mentally incompetent to stand trial last September. A second evaluation has since been conducted at the prosecution's request.
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