PENNSYLVANIA
WJAC
BY MARIA MILLER AND WEB STAFF WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2ND 2016
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – A former Somerset County priest convicted of five counts of sexually abusing young boys while on mission trips in Central America was sentenced to 200 months in prison on Wednesday.
A federal judge ordered Joseph Maurizio, 70, to serve his sentence in a prison close to Johnstown and that he has a lifetime of supervised release.
Sentencing guidelines recommend a person convicted of these crimes be sentenced to 262 to 327 months in prison, but Maurizio’s defense team and his family said they are content with the 200-month sentence.
A new defense team was hired to help him with his appeal.
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