KENTUCKY
The Courier-Journal
Claire Galofaro, The Courier-Journal June 6, 2014
The Catholic priest sentenced last week to 15 years in prison for molesting an altar boy in the 1970s will have a shot at parole after less than two years.
The Rev. James Schook, 66, will be eligible for parole in April 2016, according to Department of Corrections records.
Schook, who is dying of cancer, was assigned to serve his time at the Kentucky State Reformatory in Oldham County, which has a nursing care facility and a hospice unit, capable of caring for terminally ill inmates.
There he will join another convicted pedophile priest. Louis Miller, 83, is serving a 30-year prison sentence for abusing 29 boys in Jefferson and Oldham counties over three decades. He was convicted in 2003, and became eligible for parole in 2009.
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