Former Worcester, Massachusetts rector Gregory Lisby will serve six years in federal prison, Judge Timothy Hillman ruled, after a sentencing hearing which revealed an additional non-criminal sexual encounter between Lisby and a teenage boy and an unusual number of letters of support from former colleagues and parishioners.
"We just felt we needed to celebrate what they do,” said Bishop Douglas Fisher, describing the award for journalists from the Diocese of Western Massachusetts.
TLC's Jeff MacDonald interviews parents at the Holyoke, Mass. school where former priest Gregory Lisby taught kindergarten until arrested for the possession of child pornography. Why wasn't the illicit behavior discovered earlier?
The Diocese of Western Massachusetts and the Diocese of Long Island filed friend of the court briefs in a suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union.
