JOLIET (IL)
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By Karen Sorensen May 17, 2013

A former assistant principal and athletic director at Joliet Catholic Academy will spend the rest of his life in prison for having sex with a teenage boy in Florida,

William Wert, 56, was living in Sarasota, Fla., when he was arrested for having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old and charged with seven counts of sexual battery of a minor and four counts of lewd behavior, according to a story in the Joliet Herald News. He was not working as a priest at the time of his arrest.

A jury found Wert guilty, and he was sentenced Thursday, the story said.