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  Priest Maintains Innocence in Sexual Abuse Allegations

WCPO
February 3, 2010

http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story/Priest-Maintains-Innocence-In-Sexual-Abuse/CCB2GU4hPUK6kMVPiX9bMA.cspx

Father Robert Poandl

CINCINNATI - A priest from Cincinnati facing charges for sexual abuse during his time in West Virginia maintains his innocence.

Father Robert F. Poandl was released from a West Virginia jail last week on bond and is awaiting trial. He is charged with first-degree sexual abuse, first-degree sexual assault and sexual abuse by a custodian.

Father Poandl is part of the Glenmary Home Missioners. The Glenmary Home Missioners is a religious order based in Fairfield and is where Father Poandl is residing now. The order released a statement stating as soon as Father Dan Dorsey, president of Glenmary Home Missioners, heard the allegations, he removed Father Poandl from his West Virginia post.

Father Dorsey learned of the allegations on June 9, 2009 and says Father Poandl was back in Cincinnati the next day.

Father Robert Poandl has been a priest for 40 years. He denies all the allegations.

The alleged victim now lives in Cincinnati. The charges stem from 1991, when the boy was only 10 years old. He came forward last summer about the alleged abuse that took place at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Spencer, West Virginia.

 
 

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