tragedy thrills me

May 12, 2006 02:43

  i dont make this shit up   i just  post it as it comes

Jury Convicts Priest in Murder of Nun
By JOHN SEEWER, AP
TOLEDO, Ohio (May 11) - A priest was convicted Thursday of murder in the slaying of a nun who was found stabbed 26 years ago in a hospital chapel, her forehead "anointed" with a smudge of blood and her wounds forming an upside-down cross on her chest.

Pahl, 71, was killed while preparing the Mercy Hospital chapel for Easter services on April 5, 1980. She was choked and then stabbed 31 times, the blade plunged repeatedly through an altar cloth that was left over her body in what prosecutors said looked like a ritual slaying

Prosecutor Dean Mandros said Robinson inflicted the stab wounds in the shape of an upside-down cross, anointed Pahl with her own blood in a macabre version of the last rites and stripped off her underwear "to degrade her, to mock her, to humiliate her."

The Rev. Gerald Robinson, 68, was immediately sentenced to the mandatory term of 15 years to life in prison and led away in handcuffs after a trial in which forensic experts matched the victim's wounds to a distinctive, sword-shaped letter opener found in the priest's room.

The jury took six hours to reach a verdict. Robinson's friends and family gasped when it was read. The Roman Catholic priest showed no reaction.

Robinson, who had worked closely with Sister Margaret Ann Pahl as the hospital chaplain and presided at her funeral Mass, was a suspect early on but was not charged until two years ago. Prosecutors took a closer look at the slaying after he was anonymously accused of molestation. Those allegations have not been substantiated.

lol    what a lovely world we have

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                                    so ill talk with you hellions later

peace out maggots
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