KENTUCKY
WLKY
MEADE COUNTY, Ky. —
A Louisville priest has been sentenced to seven years in prison for inappropriately touching a boy in the 1970s.
A Meade County judge on Thursday morning handed down a jury’s recommended sentence for the Rev. Joseph Hemmerle.
Hemmerle was found guilty in November of one count of indecent or immoral practices with a child.
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