FLORIDA
News Chief
By KELLI KENNEDY
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FORT LAUDERDALE | A retired Roman Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing dozens of boys for decades pleaded no contest under a plea agreement in a Fort Lauderdale courtroom Monday.
A graying Father Neil Doherty appeared frail as he entered a plea reducing sex abuse charges from a capital felony to a second-degree felony, which could require him to serve up to 15 years in prison and register as a sex offender.
The plea comes after several other alleged victims came forward and were planning to testify in the case.
“It just came time for the case to be concluded,” Doherty’s lawyer David Bogenschutz said.
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