PHILADELPHIA (PA)
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PHILADELPHIA – Fox 29 has learned that one of two priests set to go on trial in the Philadelphia Archdiocese abuse case has taken a guilty plea.
Defrocked priest Edward Avery entered the plea on Thursday afternoon.
He was sentenced to 2 1/2 to 5 years in prison.
He pleaded guilty to abuse of a 10-year-old boy at St Jerome’s Parish.
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