Priest scheduled for molestation sentencing today

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Cincinnati.com

Written by
Jennifer Edwards Baker

A longtime Catholic priest with a history of molesting children will be sentenced today after he was convicted last year of taking a Cincinnati boy to West Virginia and assaulting him in 1991.

The Rev. Robert F. Poandl could serve up to 10 years in prison when he appears before a federal court judge in Downtown Cincinnati at 9:30 a.m.

Federal jurors found him guilty in September of transporting a minor in interstate commerce with the intent of engaging him in sex.

Poandl belongs to a Fairfield-based Catholic religious order called the Glenmary Home Missioners and is not associated with the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.

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