Ariz. Catholic priest gets 111 years for sex abuse


  • World
  • Saturday, 14 Jan 2006

MESA, Ariz. (Reuters) - A Catholic priest was sentenced on Friday to 111 years in state prison for sexually abusing three boys at a suburban Phoenix church and area campsites. 

Rev. Paul LeBrun, 49, showed no emotion as he received the maximum sentence from Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Crane McClennen in the first case in Arizona of a clergyman going to trial for such crimes. 

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