Ohio Priest Faces Trial in Sex Abuse Case

Seattle Pi
September 16, 2013

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/crime/article/Ohio-priest-faces-trial-in-sex-abuse-case-4817301.php

CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio priest accused of taking a 10-year-old boy to West Virginia for sex more than two decades ago faces federal trial in Cincinnati.

Robert Poandl (POHN'-duhl) of the Cincinnati-based Glenmary Home Missioners has pleaded not guilty. His trial was scheduled to begin Monday, after U.S. District Judge Michael Barrett rejected a defense motion to dismiss the case on statute of limitations grounds. The charges were filed 21 years after the alleged abuse while the two visited a church in Spencer, West Va., in 1991.

The judge found that the prosecution has clearly alleged an offense involving sexual abuse of a child under age 18, under federal law permitting prosecution of sexual abuse at any time during the life of the child victim.