OHIO
Fox 19
Posted by Kelly Taylor
CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) –
An Ohio priest convicted of taking a 10-year-old boy to West Virginia for sex more than two decades ago was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison on Wednesday.
Federal jurors found Robert Poandl, of the Fairfield-based Glenmary Home Missioners, guilty in September of transporting a minor in interstate commerce with the intent of engaging him in sex.
Prosecutors said the priest took the boy to Spencer, W.Va., in 1991 and raped him while visiting a church there. The Associated Press reported that Poandl’s attorney denied those allegations.
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