PENNSYLVANIA
Tribune-Review
By Paul Peirce
Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015
Federal prosecutors rested their case Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Johnstown in the criminal trial of a Somerset County Catholic priest accused of traveling to Honduras to have sex with orphaned boys under the guise of doing charity work.
Judge Kim Gibson instructed the jury of seven men and five women to return to court at 1:30 p.m. Thursday to begin hearing the defense for the priest, the Rev. Joseph D. Maurizio of Windber.
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 to 2009 to have sex with boys at a mission orphanage.
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