PENNSYLVANIA
Tribune-Review
By Paul Peirce
Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015
A longtime security guard at a Honduran orphanage told federal jurors in Johnstown on Thursday that he never heard complaints from any boys about a Somerset County priest on trial for sexual assaults and never saw the priest inappropriately touch a boy.
The security guard, identified as Jose Lucas, worked at the ProNino orphanage from 2000 to 2010 when the Rev. Joseph D. Maurizio of Windber allegedly molested and had sex with some of the boys during visits.
Maurizio, 70, was the pastor of Our Lady Queen of Angels Church in Central City until his arrest Sept. 25 on multiple federal charges.
Maurizio is accused of traveling to Central America for his self-run nonprofit, Humanitarian Interfaith Ministries, between 2004 and 2009 to have sex with orphaned boys.
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