Convicted Priest Dies Before Reaching Parole Hearing
LaGrange, Kentucky --
A former priest who was a central figure in a northern Kentucky church sex abuse case died Monday. Earl Bierman, 73, was awaiting a medical parole hearing next month. He died at the Kentucky State Reformatory in LaGrange after being in declining health for several months with cancer, prison spokesman Gary Prestigiacomo said.
The Kentucky Department of Corrections requested the medical parole hearing for Bierman, who was serving a 20-year sentence, after determining he had less than a year to live. Bierman, a priest and teacher at Covington Latin School in the 1960s and 1970s, was thrown out of the priesthood after pleading guilty in 1993 to repeatedly molesting six adolescent boys in Campbell, Kenton and Mason counties.
The abuse occurred when he was a priest, teacher and guidance counselor at St. Patrick School in Maysville, Covington Latin School and Newport Catholic High School. Church records later released for a civil trial revealed at least 73 reports of abuse from teenage victims. Kentucky State Police Detective Robert Scott, the lead investigator in Bierman's case, said some of Bierman's adolescent victims had told their parents about the abuse, but they didn't believe the children.
Read the article at lex18.com Dated June 14, 2005
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A former priest who was a central figure in a northern Kentucky church sex abuse case died Monday. Earl Bierman, 73, was awaiting a medical parole hearing next month. He died at the Kentucky State Reformatory in LaGrange after being in declining health for several months with cancer, prison spokesman Gary Prestigiacomo said.
The Kentucky Department of Corrections requested the medical parole hearing for Bierman, who was serving a 20-year sentence, after determining he had less than a year to live. Bierman, a priest and teacher at Covington Latin School in the 1960s and 1970s, was thrown out of the priesthood after pleading guilty in 1993 to repeatedly molesting six adolescent boys in Campbell, Kenton and Mason counties.
The abuse occurred when he was a priest, teacher and guidance counselor at St. Patrick School in Maysville, Covington Latin School and Newport Catholic High School. Church records later released for a civil trial revealed at least 73 reports of abuse from teenage victims. Kentucky State Police Detective Robert Scott, the lead investigator in Bierman's case, said some of Bierman's adolescent victims had told their parents about the abuse, but they didn't believe the children.
Read the article at lex18.com Dated June 14, 2005
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