PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Big Trial
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
By Ralph Cipriano
for Bigtrial.net
On Feb. 9, 2011, Bernard Shero sat down to type a suicide note to his parents.
“Dear Mom and Dad,” he began. “I know the Easter season has become a very sad season for us. We have lost many loved ones during the year. I am truly sorry for making the time of your birthday a time of loss as well but I feel that I do not have much of a choice here, and I think deep in your hearts, you know why.”
On Feb. 9, 2011, Bernard Shero was a 47-year-old ex-Catholic school teacher accused of raping a former sixth-grade student named Billy Doe.
The day he wrote his two-page note to his parents, Shero was a hunted man. Detectives from the district attorney’s office had called Burton Rose, Shero’s lawyer, to ask if Shero was going to turn himself in. The detectives wanted Shero to report to the D.A.’s office at 6 a.m. on Feb. 10, 2011. Or else, the detectives would be driving out to Shero’s apartment armed with an arrest warrant.
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