Judge Tosses Sex Abuse Case against Local Priest, WLWT, August 30 2010

Judge Tosses Sex Abuse Case against Local Priest

WLWT
August 30 2010

http://www.wlwt.com/r/24815064/detail.html

Rev. Robert Poandl

SPENCER, W.Va. -- A judge has dismissed charges against a priest accused of sexually abusing a 10-year-old boy while the two visited a West Virginia church in 1991.

Roane County Circuit Judge David W. Nibert dismissed the charges against the Rev. Robert F. Poandl on Friday, but delayed his ruling for 90 days so prosecutors could appeal to the state Supreme Court.

One of Poandl's lawyers, Anita Ashley, said Monday that Nibert dismissed the case because the accuser had failed to comply with a court order to produce medical records.

Poandl was indicted in February after a 28-year-old Cincinnati man told police that Poandl molested him during a visit to a church in Spencer.

Poandl is associated with the Glenmary Home Missioners, a religious society in Cincinnati. The Rev. Dan Dorsey said earlier this year that Poandl has not functioned publicly as a Catholic priest since the allegations came to light.