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an Exxon convenience store.
• Authorities say the man entered the store about 1 a.m. Friday, collected several items and then threatened to fire a gun at the clerk. Lt. Don Hedrick says the man did not actually display a gun but led the clerk to believe that he had one.
• The man fled the scene in a car.
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SD custodian faces Internet soliciting charge
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A school custodian in Rapid City is accused of soliciting sex with a minor over the Internet.
• Twenty-eight-year-old Casey Godfrey was arrested Thursday without incident. He had been working at Pinedale Elementary School for about six weeks.
• Godfrey is being held without bond. It wasn't immediately clear if he had an attorney. He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
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AP News in Brief
APNewsBreak: Pope defrocked 400 priests in 2 years, Vatican document obtained by the AP says
• VATICAN CITY (AP) -- In his last two years as pope, Benedict XVI defrocked nearly 400 priests for raping and molesting children, more than twice as many as the two years that preceded a 2010 explosion of sex abuse cases in Europe and beyond, according to a document obtained Friday by The Associated Press and an analysis of Vatican statistics.
• The data -- 260 priests defrocked in 2011 and 124 in 2012, a total of 384 -- represented a dramatic increase over the 171 priests defrocked in 2008 and 2009.
• It was the first compilation of the number of priests forcibly removed for sex abuse by the Vatican's in-house procedures -- and a canon lawyer said the real figure is likely far higher, since the numbers don't include sentences meted out by diocesan courts.
• The spike started a year after the Vatican decided to double the statute of limitations on the crime, enabling victims who were in their late 30s to report abuse committed against them when they were children.
• The Vatican has actually made some data public year by year in its annual reports. But an internal Vatican document prepared to help the Holy See defend itself before a U.N. committee this week in Geneva compiled the statistics over the course of several years. Analysis of the raw data cited in that document, which was (Continued on page 23)
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