PHILADELPHIA (PA)
The Star
By Dave Warner
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A priest and a former parochial school teacher were found guilty on Wednesday of sexually attacking a former altar boy, the latest chapter in the child sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Rev. Charles Engelhardt, 66, faces the possibility of 37 years in prison, and Bernard Shero, 50, faces a maximum sentence of 57 years in prison following the guilty verdicts by a jury in Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia.
Engelhardt and Shero were accused of molesting an altar boy who was 10 years old at the time at St. Jerome’s parish in the Northeast section of Philadelphia.
A grand jury report in 2011, which detailed child sex abuse in the archdiocese, the nation’s sixth largest with 1.5 million members, said the altar boy was “in effect passed around” from one molester to another in 1998 and 1999.
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