Jury picks begin in Pennsylvania priest's sex tourism case
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jury selection began Tuesday for a suspended western Pennsylvania Catholic priest charged with traveling to Honduras to have sex with poor street children during missionary trips.
The Rev. Joseph Maurizio Jr., has been jailed since last fall when federal prosecutors in Johnstown accused him of molesting one boy and possessing child pornography. A new indictment in April added charges involving two other boys and that the Somerset County priest illegally sent $8,000 to a charity to help facilitate the trips which ended in 2009.