PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Albany Times Union
By MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press
Updated 10:56 am, Thursday, January 24, 2013
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Roman Catholic priest and an ex-teacher charged with sexually assaulting an altar boy won’t testify at their trial, which will soon move to closing arguments.
The case hinges on the credibility of the accuser, a 24-year-old policeman’s son and longtime heroin addict.
His accounts of being raped in about 1999 by the Rev. Charles Engelhardt, teacher Bernard Shero and a now-defrocked priest have changed significantly over time.
A church social worker has testified that the accuser initially said he had been violently attacked for hours by one man, punched by another and tied up by a third.
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