PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Daily News
DANA DIFILIPPO, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER DIFILID@PHILLYNEWS.COM, 215-854-5934
POSTED: Thursday, June 13, 2013
THEY’D BEEN convicted and stood before their judge yesterday for sentencing.
And still, the Rev. Charles Engelhardt and Bernard Shero – a Catholic priest and former parochial- school teacher convicted in January of sexually abusing a 10-year-old altar boy – avowed their innocence.
“I denied even knowing the accuser,” said Engelhardt, 66, remembering his arrest. “Even after he appeared in this courthouse, I have no recollection of him.”
Shero, 50, said he was equally mystified by the student’s claims, and Shero’s mother told Common Pleas Judge Ellen Ceisler that Shero’s thick eyeglasses and awkward appearance made him an easy target for troublemakers.
But Ceisler didn’t buy it.
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