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	Breaking News: No New Sex Trial for Former Kirtland Pastor News-Herald October 24, 2007 http://www.news-herald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18951779&BRD=1698&PAG=461&dept_id=21849&rfi=6 The Ohio Supreme Court has refused to hear a sex case involving a Kirtland church and its defrocked pastor. Gary Coiro of Concord Township was fired from his job as senior pastor and counselor at Willo-Hill Baptist Chruch in October 2003 after a sexual relationship with Akron woman Dena Canfora was revealed. Canfora and her husband, Mark, sued church officials for sexual battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress and breach of fiduciary duty. After a trial in Lake County Common Pleas Court, a jury found the church and Coiro should not be held liable for the affair since the pastor's actions were a personal, rather than professional, failure. After the Canforas lost the right to a new trial in the 11th District Court of Appeals, they appealed to the Supreme Court, which rejected the case Wednesday. The Canforas were seeking damages in excess of $25,000, but the jury awarded them nothing.
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