PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Associated Press
Updated: 01/29/2013
PHILADELPHIA—A Philadelphia jury has asked for a teacher’s suicide note as they weigh abuse charges against the teacher and a Roman Catholic priest.
The jury is set to return Wednesday for a fifth day of deliberations.
The 24-year-old accuser says he was raped as a child at a northeast Philadelphia parish by the Rev. Charles Engelhardt and sixth-grade teacher Bernard Shero.
In the suicide note, Shero apologizes to his parents for the notoriety of the looming abuse charges. He took sleeping pills before his 2011 arrest, but survived.
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