DALLAS (TX)
My Fox DFW
[with video]
By: Melissa Cutler
DALLAS –
A former Catholic priest convicted in a murder-for-hire plot was sentenced to 60 years in prison late Friday afternoon.
John Fiala was convicted for trying to hire someone to kill a 16-year-old who accused him of sexual assault. The 53-year-old Garland resident was once a priest in the San Antonio area.
Prosecutors said he discussed the plot with a neighbor who turned him in. Then police set up an undercover sting operation where Fiala offered to pay a hit man $5,000.
Fiala’s attorneys tried to argue that a neighbor was the one who hatched the scheme. But Fiala testified his neighbor had no motive.
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