The Vatican has defrocked a Pennsylvania priest who's been accused of sexually abusing children
David L. Poulson, who served in a church in Erie in northwestern Pennsylvania, was one of 300 priests from the state who were accused of sexual crimes since 1947, according to a 1,356-page grand jury report released in August. The grand jury charged just two of those priests, as the rest of the cases exceeded the statute of limitations.
Laicization is a process that removes a priest from the priesthood. Pope Francis approved Poulson's"dispensation from all the obligations attached to holy orders ," the Diocese says.Authorities accused Poulson of sexually assaulting a boy repeatedly in rectories at two churches, and alleged he tried to assault another boy at a hunting cabin he owned with a friend. Read MorePoulson, who served the Catholic Church for four decades, received a sentence of 2.
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