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Columbus Dispatch
By Lisa Cornwell
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Saturday September 21, 2013
CINCINNATI — A priest charged with taking a 10-year-old boy to West Virginia for sex more than two decades ago was found guilty yesterday.
Jurors in federal court in Cincinnati found Robert Poandl, 72, guilty of one count of transporting a minor in interstate commerce with the intent of engaging him in sex, a charge that carries a possible sentence of 10 years in prison.
Poandl, from the Glenmary Home Missioners in suburban Cincinnati, took the boy to Spencer, W.Va., on Aug. 3, 1991, and raped him while visiting a church there, prosecutors said.
Poandl’s attorney, Stephen Wenke, told jurors that the allegations were false, denying the boy was even on the trip.
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