PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Washington Post
Lawyer says accuser can’t be believed in Philadelphia abuse trial involving priest, ex-teacher
By Associated Press
Updated: Monday, January 14
PHILADELPHIA — A defense lawyer for a priest charged with sexually assaulting an altar boy says the Philadelphia accuser has never told the same story twice.
Defense lawyer Michael McGovern represents the Rev. Charles Engelhardt, who went on trial Monday along with former teacher Bernard Shero.
McGovern says people now look at priests in clerical collars and “see a bull’s-eye” — because they hope to get money by suing the church.
Engelhardt and Shero are charged with sexually assaulting the now 24-year-old man at St. Jerome’s Parish in northeast Philadelphia in 1999. They have pleaded not guilty.
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