OHIO
The Raw Story
By Travis Gettys
Monday, July 7, 2014
An Ohio priest who died while serving a life sentence for murdering a nun will be buried with full honors.
Father Gerald Robinson was convicted in 2006 of choking Sister Margaret Ann Pahl to the edge of death in the sacristy of the former Mercy Hospital and then stabbing her 32 times in the chest, neck, and face on April 5, 1980 – the day before Easter and one day before the nun would have turned 72.
According to the Toledo Blade, Robinson presided over Sister Margaret’s Mass of the Resurrection.
The 76-year-old Robinson died Friday morning in hospice at a Columbus hospital run by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.
His cause of death has not yet been reported, but the priest had been treated at the hospice for heart trouble. …
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests and the National Survivors Advocate Coalition have asked Father Charles Ritter to hold a small, private funeral for Robinson and explain why he was not given a full burial.
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