WNBC
March 22, 2006
http://www.wnbc.com/news/8182185/detail.html
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- A former priest with a checkered past is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday morning on child sex charges.
Thomas Bender is accused of traveling from Pennsylvania to Nassau County, thinking he was going to take a 14-year-old boy to a hotel, police said.
Instead, he was met by detectives.
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Bender was granted seven years probation in 1988 after sexually abusing a teenage altar boy near Allentown, Newsday reported in Wednesday's editions.
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