Rev. Robert Poandl: Child sexual-abuse trial begins …

OHIO
WCPO

Greg Noble
gregory.noble@wcpo.com

CINCINNATI – There will be new twists in a 22-year-old priest-child sexual-abuse case when Rev. Robert Poandl’s trial begins Monday in federal court.

Poandl, of Glenmary Home Missioners in Fairfield, faces one count of transportation of a minor across state lines for illicit purposes.

A federal grand jury indictment charges that Poandl, now 71, took a 10-year-old Cincinnati boy to Spencer, W.Va., and sexually assaulted him in a church rectory in August 1991.

Federal prosecutors charged Poandl after a West Virginia state court dismissed sex and assault charges against him in the case in 2010.

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