KENTUCKY
Kentucky Post
By Paul A. Long
Post staff reporter
Earl Bierman, the Roman Catholic priest whose admitted sexual assaults on children helped spiral the Covington Diocese into a painful, 15-year-long examination of its history of sexual abuse and misconduct, died Monday.
Bierman, 73, died at the nursing-care facility at the Kentucky State Reformatory. An Oldham County coroner pronounced him dead at 1:40 p.m., said Corrections Department spokeswoman Lisa Lamb.
Although no cause of death was given, Bierman was known to have been diagnosed with cancer.
Lamb did not know where Bierman's body was taken.
He had been serving a 20-year sentence, imposed in 1993, for sexually abusing boys in Mason, Kenton, and Campbell counties from the early 1960s through 1976. The Corrections Department recently asked the state Parole Board to consider giving him an early medical release because of his declining health.
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