PHILADELPHIA (PA)
CBS Philly
By Tony Hanson and Walt Hunter
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The jury in the clergy sexual abuse case has finished its sixth day of deliberations without reaching a verdict.
The jury broke for the day after re-hearing trial testimony of statements made by defendant James Brennan during a church investigation of allegations of an assault during an overnight stay at the priest’s apartment.
Father James Brennan is accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy in 1996. During questioning by a church official in 2008, Brennan categorically denied he sexually assaulted the teen during that overnight stay at the priest’s apartment–or ever–although he conceded he did make a number of regrettable decisions that night, including giving into the boy’s demand to look at pornography on the internet. He also acknowledged that they slept in the same bed.
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