PHILADELPHIA (PA)
CNN
By Sarah Hoye, CNN
updated 6:17 AM EDT, Tue September 4, 2012
Philadelphia (CNN) — The child sexual abuse trial of a Philadelphia Catholic priest and a parochial school teacher, both accused of raping the same altar boy in separate incidents, begins Tuesday.
The Rev. Charles Engelhardt, who was a priest at St. Jerome Parish in northeast Philadelphia, and Bernard Shero, a teacher at the parish’s school, have been charged with rape, indecent sexual assault and other criminal charges in the alleged assaults that occurred more than a decade ago.
The accuser, dubbed “Billy” in a 2011 Philadelphia grand jury report, will be the key witness against the men, both of whom have pleaded not guilty to the charges.
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