PHILADELPHIA (AP) - October 3, 2008 --
An Episcopal bishop in Pennsylvania has been defrocked after a church panel found him guilty of covering up his brother's assaults of a teenage girl in the 1970s. Church documents released Friday say 64-year-old Charles Bennison Jr. should no longer serve as a member of the clergy.
The church panel chose the harshest sentence for Bennison, who has been bishop of the nation's fifth-largest Episcopal diocese. He could have been reprimanded or suspended.