A Catholic priest lost his attempt to appeal a 2013 conviction for
taking a 10-year-old Price Hill boy across state lines and allegedly
raping him.
Robert "Father Bob" Poandl, 76, is in prison after a
jury in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati convicted him of taking an
altar boy, David Harper, on a trip to serve Mass at a church in West
Virginia and raping him in a rectory bedroom there in 1991.
Poandl’s
attorneys filed a motion in May asking the Sixth Circuit Court of
Appeals for a chance to appeal that conviction. He claimed that his
attorneys made mistakes during trial, and he questioned whether any
Catholic priest accused of pedophilia could receive a fair trial in the
aftermath a sexual abuse scandal that rocked the church more than a
decade ago.
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