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29 December 2018

Priest named in Pennsylvania church sex abuse probe jailed

A Roman Catholic priest from western Pennsylvania is headed to state prison, the first person sentenced to incarceration as a result of a grand jury investigation that reported hundreds of priests had abused children in the state over seven decades. The Rev. John Thomas Sweeney was sentenced Friday to 11½ months to five years in state prison and will have to register as a sex offender for 10 years.

http://www.weny.com/story/39689924/priest-named-in-pennsylvania-church-sex-abuse-probe-jailed