Allegation Led to New Look at Nun's Death (Priest charged; Satanic abuse) [View All]

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TOLEDO, Ohio - Investigators re-examined the 1980 slaying of a nun whose body was found in a chapel surrounded by candles after another woman alleged she was abused by Roman Catholic priests during Satanic and sadomasochistic rituals.

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Rev. Gerald Robinson, 66, was charged Friday with murdering Sister Margaret Ann Pahl, who was strangled and stabbed about 30 times on April 5, 1980. Her body was found in a hospital chapel, surrounded by lit candles with her arms folded across her chest.

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The woman whose allegations led to the reopening of the case testified before a church review board in June and wrote a detailed statement alleging years of abuse by priests during her childhood.

The woman, now in her 40s, alleged that the clerics killed an infant and a 3-year-old child, performed an abortion on her and mutilated dogs, according to a copy of her statement obtained by The Blade. She described Satanic ceremonies in which priests placed her in a coffin filled with cockroaches, forced her to ingest what she believed to be a human eyeball, and penetrated her with a snake "to consecrate these orifices to Satan."

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