KENTUCKY
WDRB
By Valerie Chinn
Louisville, KY (WDRB) — Is a Louisville priest competent to stand trial? That’s the question both the defense and prosecution are hoping to get answered soon in the Father James Schook case.
Two boys who are now grown men say they were abused by Schook in the early 1970s. In 2011, he was charged with seven counts of sodomy.
Schook was supposed to be evaluated at the Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center, but the prosecution says because the facility didn’t think it could handle his medical needs, their doctors will now evaluate him at Atria Senior Living in St. Matthews, where is he currently staying.
The defense says Schook has terminal skin cancer and those records are now being looked at, as well.
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