Six More Jurors Selected in Sex-Abuse Trial

Philadelphia Inquirer
January 9, 2013

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Six more jurors were picked Tuesday for the Philadelphia Common Pleas Court trial of a priest and a former parochial-school teacher charged with sexually assaulting a 10-year-old altar boy at a Northeast parish in the late 1990s.

The six men selected on the second day brought the total to 10. Three women and a man were selected Monday.

Prosecution and defense lawyers and Judge Ellen Ceisler will resume the selection process Wednesday in the hope of getting a jury of 12 and several alternatives to hear the trial of the Rev. Charles Engelhardt, 66, and Bernard Shero, 49.

The pair are accused of serially molesting a fifth grader at St. Jerome's parish and school in 1998 and 1999. Engelhardt and Shero are the last two of five people charged as a result of the 2011 county grand jury report about the cover-up of clergy sexual abuse of children in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. - Joseph A. Slobodzian