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By Ed Richter
Staff Writer
CINCINNATI — A priest who was found guilty of taking a 10-year-old boy to West Virginia and molesting him more than two decades ago was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati.
A U.S. federal court judge sentenced Fr. Robert (Bob) Poandl to 7½ years behind bars today.
Poandl, a priest with the Fairfield-based Glenmary Home Missioners, had faced up to 10 years in federal prison. A federal jury found Poandl guilty in September of one count of transporting a minor in interstate commerce with the intent of engaging him in sex. Poandl took the boy to Spencer, W. Va., in Aug. 3, 1991 and raped him during a visit to a church there.
His accuser, who now in his 30s, waited until 2009 to report the incident to police in West Virginia.
Poandl was indicted on charges in a West Virginia court for sexually abusing the boy. However, a judge dismissed those charges.
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