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WLWT
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CINCINNATI —A Cincinnati-area priest convicted of taking a 10-year-old boy to West Virginia for sex more than two decades ago was sentenced to prison Wednesday.
Federal jurors found Robert Poandl guilty in September of transporting a minor in interstate commerce with the intent of engaging him in sex. He was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison.
Poandl could have been sentenced to up to 10 years in prison.
Prosecutors say the priest from the suburban Cincinnati-based Glenmary Home Missioners took the boy to Spencer, W.Va., in 1991 and raped him while visiting a church there.
Poandl’s attorney denied those allegations, and Poandl himself denied them during the sentencing hearing.
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