“We believed in our case. I want to recognize the victim’s courage to come into court to testify, and we respect the jurors’ verdict.”
A Cap Cod priest who was accused of two counts of rape between 2005 and 2008 has been found not guilty by a Barnstable Superior Court jury.
The priest, Mark Hession, served as the parish priest for Our Lady of Victory in Centerville from 2000 to 2014, according to The Cap Cod Times.
He pleaded not guilty to all charges on the 2021 indictment, including one count of assault and battery on a child under 14, alleged to have happened in 2002, according to the paper.
On the assault and battery charge, the jury couldn’t reach a verdict last week, according to reports. Judge Mark C. Gildea declared a mistrial, according to the news publication.
The jury deliberated for five days…
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