PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer
Joseph A. Slobodzian, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Posted: Thursday, January 17, 2013, 1:02 PM
Facing imminent arrest for the alleged sexual assault of a 10-year-old pupil in his English class, parochial school teacher Bernard Shero penned a sad letter apologizing to his parents for the “ridicule and shame,” took an overdose of sleeping pills and waited for death in his Bristol apartment.
Death did not arrive on Feb. 10, 2011 but Philadelphia police Det. Andrew Snyder did and the detective told a Common Pleas Court jury today how lucky timing let him arrest Shero instead of follow him to the morgue.
Shero, 49, and Rev. Charles Engelhardt, 66, are on trial for the sexual assault of the 10-year-old in 1998 and 1999 while he was an altar boy and pupil at St. Jerome’s church and school in the Northeast.
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