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	Ex-Priest Pleads Not Guilty to Calif. Sex Charges Associated Press June 21, 2010 http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_15345386?nclick_check=1 SANTA ANA, Calif.—A former Roman Catholic priest who was accused of molesting a teen more than 30 years ago has pleaded not guilty to charges that he molested another child in the mid-1990s. Court records show that Denis Lyons entered not guilty pleas Monday to four felony counts of conducting a lewd act with a minor. Prosecutors say Lyons abused the boy from 1992 to 1995 at St. John the Baptist School, starting when the child was 7. Charges that Lyons molested a teenage boy beginning in 1978 were dropped in 2003 after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling regarding prosecuting older sex crimes. Lyons was removed from ministry in 2002. A pre-trial hearing was set for next month in the latest case. Lyons' attorney, Gary Pohlson, did not immediately return a call for comment.
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