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	Former Priest's Probation May be Revoked Associated Press, carried in The Kentucky.com June 12, 2007 http://www.kentucky.com/471/story/95217.html Louisville, Ky. — Prosecutors are asking a judge to send an 81-year-old former priest to prison for failing to complete sex-offender treatment, court records show. The Rev. Edwin Scherzer was sentenced last year to five years of house arrest for sexually abusing four boys between 1956 and 1966. But the Jefferson Commonwealth Attorney's office and state Division of Probation and Parole have asked Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Susan Schultz Gibson to force Scherzer to finish his sentence in jail after Scherzer was kicked out of the state's Sex Offender Treatment Program last November. Prosecutors say Scherzer violated his treatment contract when he refused to admit he abused three of the four boys, according to a supervision report. David Lambertus, Scherzer's attorney, declined comment. Prosecutors said getting Scherzer to prison may be difficult because Scherzer was not required under state law to take the treatment and it wasn't specifically addressed in the plea agreement.
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