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By Andrew Davis, Anchor/Reporter
A Priest who worked in the Coastal Empire for 5 years is now headed to jail for molesting a boy.
A US federal court judge in Cincinnati has sentenced Fr. Robert (Bob) Poandl to 7 1/2 years behind bars for taking a ten year old Ohio boy to Spencer, WV and sexually abusing him in 1991.
Fr. Poandl worked in the Savannah diocese from 2007-2009 and 2010-2012 at St. Christopher’s in Claxton, St. Jude in Glenville, Holy Cross in Pembroke, Our Lady of Guadalupe in Sandhill, GA.
Catholic officials transferred him about 30 times in 44 years.
“That alone is a serious red flag,” said Judy Jones of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, a Chicago-based support group. “A number of bishops and other church officials have acted dreadfully in this case, even in recent years, Despite this victim’s credible abuse report, Catholic officials put Fr. Poandl back on the job as recently as 2012.”
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