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Ex-PA priest accused of attempting to have sex with Nassau teen

A former priest was arrested Tuesday for allegedly traveling from Pennsylvania to Nassau County to have sex with a teenage boy. Seventy-two-year-old Thomas Bender, of Pennsylvania, was arrested when

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