Blackwell found guilty on 3 sex abuse counts: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Baltimore, Maryland --
Maurice Blackwell, the former priest of St. Edward Catholic Church in West Baltimore, was convicted Thursday of molesting a parish choirboy, who years later shot him.
The defrocked priest, found guilty of three counts of sexual child abuse that took place in the early 1990s, could be sentenced to up to 45 years in prison on April 15 by Baltimore Circuit Judge Stuart R. Berger.
Blackwell, 58, was acquitted of one count of abuse for incidents that allegedly occurred in 1989.
The weeklong trial attracted national attention because the accuser, Dontee Stokes, shot him in May 2002 at the height of the national priest abuse scandal in the Catholic church. Stokes, now 29, was acquitted of attempted murder but convicted of weapons violations. He served home detention.
Blackwell became the 271st Roman Catholic priest convicted of sexual abuse since 1965. He was defrocked in October by Pope John Paul II and has not been a pastor since 1998, when he admitted having had a sexual relationship with another teenage boy in the 1970s.
Read the article at South Florida Sun-Sentinel dated February 17 2005
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Maurice Blackwell, the former priest of St. Edward Catholic Church in West Baltimore, was convicted Thursday of molesting a parish choirboy, who years later shot him.
The defrocked priest, found guilty of three counts of sexual child abuse that took place in the early 1990s, could be sentenced to up to 45 years in prison on April 15 by Baltimore Circuit Judge Stuart R. Berger.
Blackwell, 58, was acquitted of one count of abuse for incidents that allegedly occurred in 1989.
The weeklong trial attracted national attention because the accuser, Dontee Stokes, shot him in May 2002 at the height of the national priest abuse scandal in the Catholic church. Stokes, now 29, was acquitted of attempted murder but convicted of weapons violations. He served home detention.
Blackwell became the 271st Roman Catholic priest convicted of sexual abuse since 1965. He was defrocked in October by Pope John Paul II and has not been a pastor since 1998, when he admitted having had a sexual relationship with another teenage boy in the 1970s.
Read the article at South Florida Sun-Sentinel dated February 17 2005
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