TEXAS
KLTV
[with video]
By Lexie Cook
TYLER, TX (KLTV) –
A former East Texas priest is set to spend the next seven and a half years in prison for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy.
Father Robert Poandl, also known as “Father Bob”, worked for the Catholic Diocese in Tyler during the 1990s.
The Diocese says Poandl mainly worked as a parish priest in Pittsburg, TX, south of Mount Pleasant.
Poandl is charged with taking a boy on a trip from Ohio to West Virginia, where he sexually assaulted him. He is not facing any charges related to his time here in East Texas.
Still, the Diocese of Tyler says they are reaching out to any possible victims.
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