Priest convicted of sex abuse set for release

FLORIDA
WFTS

Edward Lawrence

A former priest convicted of molesting boys will walk out of prison Saturday to the shock of his victims.

Robert Schaeufele pleaded guilty in 2003.

“It’s like a bomb dropped at your feet,” said Chris McCafferty, one of his victims.

McCafferty put this day out of his mind because he thought it wouldn’t come for another 13 ½ years.

But a legal technicality will allow the former priest who admitted to sexually abusing McCafferty and other children will walk out of prison.

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