A jury reached a
verdict Tuesday in the federal trial of Central City priest Father
Joseph Maurizio. The five charges he was found guilty of include one count of
international money laundering, one count of possession of pictures that
exploit children and three counts of eliciting sexual misconduct with
three different boys overseas.
One of those boys recanted his initial story of being abused. Another count for that same boy though, Maurizio was found not guilty of. WJAC-TV was not able to speak with Maurizio’s defense team who somehow skipped past the media, but the former president of Pro Nino USA, the organization that helped fund and run the orphanage in Honduras that Maurizio was involved with, says Tuesday’s verdict validates everything.
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One of those boys recanted his initial story of being abused. Another count for that same boy though, Maurizio was found not guilty of. WJAC-TV was not able to speak with Maurizio’s defense team who somehow skipped past the media, but the former president of Pro Nino USA, the organization that helped fund and run the orphanage in Honduras that Maurizio was involved with, says Tuesday’s verdict validates everything.
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