PHILADELHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer
Joseph A. Slobodzian, Inquirer Staff Writer
Posted: Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Three women and a man were picked Monday as jurors for the Philadelphia trial of a priest and a former Catholic-school teacher charged with sexually assaulting a Northeast Philadelphia altar boy in the late 1990s.
The four were selected from about 75 prospective jurors culled from a panel of 130 on the first day of jury selection in the Common Pleas Court trial of the Rev. Charles Engelhardt and Bernard Shero.
Judge Ellen Ceisler, prosecutors, and defense lawyers are to resume selecting 12 jurors and several alternates Tuesday at the Criminal Justice Center.
Engelhardt, 66, and Shero, 49, are charged with serially sexually assaulting the 10-year-old boy, called “Billy Doe” in the 2011 county grand jury report about clergy sex abuse of children in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The assaults allegedly occurred while Engelhardt was a pastor and Shero a teacher assigned to St. Jerome’s parish in the Northeast.
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