MALTA
Times of Malta
A mistake that led to a defrocked priest being cleared of rape could have been corrected during proceedings, a judge ruled yesterday as he threw out an appeal by the Attorney General.
The mistake emerged when, in the beginning of last August, Magistrate Saviour Demicoli acquitted Godwin Scerri, 75, of raping a boy because the victim testified that it happened in Sta Venera in 1992 when the charge sheet said it had taken place in Marfa.
Mr Scerri was convicted of abusing boys about 20 years ago and was sentenced for five years in jail.
Another priest who was also defrocked, Carmel Pulis, 64, was sentenced to six years in jail also for abusing boys.
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