22
May
10-YEAR TERM FOR EX-PRIEST
Newsday/Robert Kessler
Thomas J. Bender, a 73 year old former priest from Pennsylvania who was arrested in Nassauon his way to a tryst with someone he thought was a 14 year old boy, was carrying beer, candy,condoms and gay pornography. After communicating for more than a year online with a Nassaupolice detective posing as a teenager, Bender, of Macungie, Pennsylvania, drove 2 1/2 hours to meetthe teenager at an undisclosed location on Long Island. Bender was charged with five countsof disseminating indecent material to a minor, a felony, and a