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	Retired Priest Found Incompetent to Stand Trial Associated Press, carried in Boston Herald May 9, 2008 http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1092940&srvc=home&position=recent WORCESTER - A retired Catholic priest charged with sexually molesting two altar boys more than 20 years ago has been found mentally incompetent to stand trial. Judge David Ricciardone said the Rev. John Szantyr was incompetent today. Szantyr's brother said during a hearing last month that the 76-year-old retired priest suffers from Parkinson's disease, can no longer carry on an intelligent conversation and relies on others to dress and feed him. Szantyr had been found incompetent in 2006, but prosecutors claimed new information proved he had an understanding of the legal process. The alleged assaults occurred when Szantyr was assigned to Our Lady of Czestochowa Parish in Worcester. He had pleaded not guilty.
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