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  Murd Found Not Guilty of Misdemeanor Sexual Imposition

Toledo Blade
June 13, 2008

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080613/NEWS02/132363572

A Roman Catholic priest accused of fondling a man in a hot tub in a Sylvania Township YMCA facility was acquitted on Friday of misdemeanor sexual imposition.

Lucas County Common Pleas Judge James Jensen issued his decision in the case of the Rev. Frank Murd after hearing testimony during a bench trial earlier this week.

Father Murd, 66, resigned as pastor of St. Joseph's Church in Maumee about a month after a 27-year-old man reported the incident that occurred at the JCC/YMCA, 6465 Sylvania Ave.

The man testified that the priest joined him in the hot tub and fondled him on March 18.

 
 

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