Former priest sentenced to prison

By Rich Cholodofsky

A disgraced “predator priest” formerly with the Greensburg diocese finally apologized publicly for molesting a Catholic school boy in the early 1990s.
“I am so, so sorry for what I did,” the Rev. John Thomas Sweeney, 75, told the victim’s mother and brother inside a Westmoreland County courtroom Friday before being sentenced to 11 1/2 months to five years in prison.

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