OHIO
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By Ed Richter
Staff Writer
CINCINNATI — A priest convicted of taking a 10-year-old boy to West Virginia for sex more than two decades ago was sentenced Wednesday to 7½ years in federal prison.
Robert Poandl, 72, a priest with the Fairfield-based Glenmary Home Missioners, was convicted in September of the Mann Act, which is transporting a minor in interstate commerce with the intent of engaging him in sex. He could have received up to 10 years.
Federal prosecutors say Poandl took the boy to Spencer, W.Va., in 1991 and raped him while visiting a church there.
Poandl, who is suffering from cancer, continued to deny those allegations even as U.S. District Court Judge Michael R. Barrett sentenced him Wednesday in Cincinnati.
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