CINCINNATI (OH)
WCPO
[with video]
Rev. Robert Poandl: Mother testifies she sent son on trip where priest sexually abused him
Greg Noble
gregory.noble@wcpo.com
CINCINNATI – Crying on the witness stand, a mother said she pleaded with her 10-year-old son to go on an overnight trip with a priest who had given their struggling family $800.
The woman testified that her son at first refused to go with Rev. Robert Poandl, but she persisted.
“Father Bob has been so good to us,” she recalled telling her son during the priest’s sexual abuse trial in federal court Tuesday.
Poandl, of Fairfield-based Glenmary Home Missioners, is accused of sexually assaulting the boy on that trip to a West Virginia church in 1991.
The accuser’s fiancée also testified Tuesday and said the attack led to their temporary breakup. The alleged victim is scheduled to testify Wednesday.
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