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Former Dayton-area priest pleads guilty to child rape

December 03, 2021

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CWN Editor's Note: Father Geoff Drew has pled guilty to the rape of an altar boy in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the child was 10-11 years old.

The Archdiocese of Cincinnati suspended the priest for “boundary violations” in 2019, and will now seek from the Vatican his laicization.

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