Arlington priest who oversaw child protection office indicted for sex abuse
Lisa F. Young via www.shutterstock.comArlington, Va., Dec 30, 2021 / 13:00 pm (CNA).The Diocese of Arlington's former director for the Office of Child Protection, Father Terry Specht, was indicted last week on two charges of sexual abuse. A grand jury in Virginia indicted Specht Dec. 20 on one count of aggravated sexual battery of a child under the age of 13 and one count of sexual abuse of a child over whom a custodial or supervisory relationship existed. Michael Kelly, Chief of Staff for the office of Virginia's attorney general, Mark Herring, told CNA that the maximum penalty for ...