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	Prosecutors Argue Ex-Clinton Pastor's Back Rubs Too Sexual By Rocco LaDuca Utica Observer-Dispatch January 17, 2008 http://www.uticaod.com/homepage/x1059359325 Attorneys began to argue in Oneida County Court Wednesday whether a former Clinton pastor went too far in touching a 7-year-old girl who was spending the night at his house last March. The Rev. William Procanick is facing trial this week on charges of first-degree sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child after he was accused of having inappropriate contact with the young daughter of a family friend. Procanick, the 53-year-old former pastor of Resurrection Assembly of God, says he was merely massaging the young girl's back as he normally did anytime she and her sister spent the night at Procanick's Kirkland Avenue home. The girls usually asked for such massages as they tried to fall asleep, the defense argues. The Procanicks would occasionally care for the girls as their struggling mother tried to get her life back in order, so such overnight stays were not out of the ordinary, Procanick has said.
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