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Fugitive extradited from Israel to Pittsburgh stands trial on rape charges


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An Israeli man who fled criminal charges that he raped a teenage girl at a Dormont tanning salon in 2004 is standing trial this week.
Moshe Journo, 55, was extradited back to the United States from Israel in 2019 and pleaded guilty in December of that year to aggravated indecent assault, sexual assault, statutory sexual assault and indecent assault.
But, Journo withdrew his plea four months later just days before he was to be sentenced.
The case was then scheduled for trial in November, but almost immediately ended in a mistrial when Journo’s defense attorney, Joseph E. Hudak, told the jury in his opening statement that his client had previously pleaded guilty. ....

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