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A former youth pastor of Grace Brethren Church on Marion Ave. in Mansfield has been indicted on 26 counts of sexual battery by the Richland County Grand Jury.
John Picard, 41, was indicted last year on 16 counts of sexual battery of two teenage parishioners.
Richland County Assistant Prosecutor Bambi Couch-Page says the new case involves unlawful [...]

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Sex abuse conviction overturned
WORCESTER — The Rev. Thomas H. Teczar, a Roman Catholic priest formerly from Worcester, faces a second trial in Texas on charges that he sexually assaulted an 11-year-old boy in 1990.
Rev. Teczar was found guilty by a Texas district judge in 2007 of three counts of aggravated assault of a child [...]

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George Miller, 70, faces up to three years in prison. He also admits to three other cases that he can’t be charged with.
A former Los Angeles priest pleaded guilty Tuesday to molesting a young boy 20 years ago and admitted to three other cases that he cannot be charged with because of a 2003 U.S. [...]

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Spared prison a decade ago, he could face up to 12 years
A convicted sex offender spared prison a decade ago in favor of treatment pleaded guilty Monday to a new charge of sexually assaulting a teenage boy.
Robert D. Bennefield, 43, of Sifton could face up to 12 years in prison.
In 1998, Bennefield pleaded guilty to [...]

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A court has rejected a new trial for a dismissed priest who was one of the central figures in Boston’s clergy sex abuse scandal. Paul R. Shanley is serving a 12- to 15-year prison sentence after being convicted in 2005 of repeatedly raping and fondling a boy at a Newton parish in the 1980s. In [...]

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