KENTUCKY
Cincinnati Post
By Paul A. Long
Post staff reporter
Earl Bierman is dying.
The suspended Catholic priest, who in Northern Kentucky became the epitome of the sex-abuse crisis in the church, has been diagnosed with cancer and given less than a year to live, said Parole Board executive director James O'Keefe.
Because of that, officials at the Department of Corrections are asking the state Parole Board to take another look at whether Bierman should be released a year early from his 20-year prison sentence.
"The board is hearing this at the request of the Department of Corrections," O'Keefe said. "It will consider a medical termination of his sentence."
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