Posted 3/28/2009 05:26:00 PM by Douglas

Thanks, Boston, for giving us your kid-raping priest. But we'll give 'em a good home.

Jurors have sentenced a Roman Catholic priest convicted of child sex abuse to 50 years in prison, a term double the original sentence he received during his first trial for the crime.

The Rev. Thomas Teczar had been sentenced to 25 years by a judge in 2007 for raping and molesting an 11-year-old boy. But his convictions on three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child were overturned on appeal last fall because of testimony from a witness.

Teczar is in the process of being defrocked at the request of the Fort Worth Roman Catholic Diocese, where he served as a priest from 1988-93 in several parishes.

The diocese has settled with six of Teczar’s accusers, including two in 2005 who received $4.15 million.

Teczar was a priest in the Worcester, Mass., diocese until he was kicked out in 1986 for misconduct with boys. He returned to Massachusetts after the abuse allegations surfaced in Texas, diocese officials have said.

You diddle a teenage boy at Wal-Mart, you don't get your job back. What's going on here?