PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer
Joseph A. Slobodzian, Inquirer Staff Writer
Posted: Thursday, January 24, 2013
After eight days of testimony, the Philadelphia jury in the child sex-assault trial of a priest and a former parochial-school teacher is expected to hear its final witnesses Thursday.
Common Pleas Court Judge Ellen Ceisler told jurors Wednesday that they would begin deliberations this week.
The judge’s comments ended a day in which 20 defense witnesses testified for the Rev. Charles Engelhardt and Bernard Shero.
What remains unknown is whether either man will testify in his defense for the alleged serial rape of a 10-year-old altar boy in 1998 and 1999 at St. Jerome’s church in Northeast Philadelphia.
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