PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Beta Wired
A Roman Catholic priest died while he was in police custody. The priest went for appeal against conviction for child sexual abuse.
The 67 years old Rev. Charles Engelhardt remained in prison since the day he got convicted last year. According to a religious order the priest was serving a 6 to 12 years jail-term and dies over the past weekend in a hospital. He maintained his innocence and said that he didn’t remember the one who accused him, a policeman’s child who said he was molested by a couple of priests and Catholic school teacher.
Engelhardt said that he accepted the injustice and would continue to do so until authorities make it right. He claimed that he didn’t have any so of interaction with the accuser.
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