PENNSYLVANIA
Tribune-Review
A Roman Catholic priest will serve nearly 17 years in a federal prison for molesting boys at a Honduran orphanage.
Prosecutors said the Rev. Joseph D. Maurizio used a self-run charity based in Johnstown, Humanitarian Interfaith Ministries, to visit the orphanage numerous times between 1999 and 2009, promising candy and cash to boys to watch them shower, have sex or fondle them.
U.S. District Judge Kim R. Gibson on Wednesday sentenced Maurizio to 16 years, eight months in prison on two counts of engaging or attempting to engage in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places and one count each of possession of child pornography and money laundering.
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