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	Judge Dismisses Charge against Priest Watertown Daily Times April 9, 2009 http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20090409/NEWS05/304099966/-1/NEWS A Montgomery County judge Wednesday dismissed a child endangerment charge against a suspended Roman Catholic priest. The Rev. John W. Broderick, 48, had been accused of having inappropriate sexual contact with three children, ranging in age from 5 to 11, over a few months in 2007. A jury in February found him guilty on a misdemeanor child endangerment charge, but acquitted him on felony sexual abuse. Judge Felix J. Catena vacated the child endangerment charge because the jury should not have been asked to consider a lesser charge. The priest could have faced up to a year in jail and received probation. The priest faced charges of two felony counts of second-degree course of sexual conduct against a child and a misdemeanor child endangerment charge. He was involved with the Dominican Sisters, a Catholic group not recognized by the Vatican that runs the Holy Name of Jesus Academy in Massena. He worked there from mid-2007 until his arrest in February at the school. No complaints were filed against him in Massena.
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