Ex-priest gets 5 to 10 years in Pa. abuse case
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WELLSBORO (AP) – A former Roman Catholic priest convicted of sexual assault of an altar boy in northern Pennsylvania in the 1990s was sentenced to five to 10 years in prison.
The (Williamsport) Sun-Gazette said 66-year-old Thomas Shoback of Wilkes-Barre was sentenced Monday in Tioga County Court.
He was convicted in May of seven counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and endangering the welfare of a child.
Prosecutors alleged the assaults occurred at St. Mary’s Parish in Blossburg from 1991 to 1997, at the parish rectory and a private cabin in Farmington Township.
The Diocese of Scranton suspended Shoback in November 2011 after the allegations first surfaced. At the time, he was working at a parish in Jermyn, Lackawanna County.