Retrial for US Priest in Child Sex Assault Case

KENS
August 29, 2012

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A U.S. priest will remain in legal limbo until 2013 after a judge set a March date for his retrial in a child sexual assault case.

Prosecutors are retrying the Rev. James Brennan after the jury deadlocked on attempted rape and child endangerment charges.

The jury acquitted Brennan of conspiring with church officials after a landmark trial that alleged a broad cover-up of abuse complaints at the Philadelphia archdiocese.

A young man accuses Brennan of abusing him in 1996, when Brennan was on leave from the Roman Catholic priesthood.

His status as a priest is pending with the Vatican.