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	Abuse Group Challenges Archbishop Cincinnati.com February 4, 2010 http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100204/NEWS01/302030039/Abuse+group+challenges+archbishop CINCINNATI (OH) -- Clergy sex abuse victims say they plan to hold a protest Thursday morning outside the Cincinnati Archbishop Chancery, 100 E. Eighth St., downtown Cincinnati. The Cincinnati chapter of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests say they will urge Cincinnati's new archbishop, the Rev. Dennis Schnurr, to reveal when he and his staff learned about a child sex allegation against a priest. A priest in a Fairfield religious order is facing charges he molested a 10-year-old boy in West Virginia in 1991. The Rev. Robert F. Poandl is charged with first-degree sexual abuse, first-degree sexual assault and sexual abuse by a custodian, according to West Virginia State Police. Poandl was released on bond last week after a Roane County grand jury handed up indictments against him. The alleged victim, now 28 and living in Cincinnati, told police last summer that the priest molested him at the Holy Redeemer Catholic Church rectory in Spencer, W. Va. Poandl is a priest with the Glenmary Home Missioners, a religious order in Fairfield. He denies the accusations. A spokesman for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati has said the issue has nothing to do with the archdiocese. The bishop doesn't have authority over another religious order's priests unless the priest has been asked to lead or work at one of the parishes – and that is not the case in this situation, said spokesman Dan Andriacco.
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