Sunday, December 11, 2011

Penn. Priest Is Arrested for Viewing Child Porn; Rev. Bartley Sorensen Is Held in Allegheny Jail

The Reuters website reports today (December 11, 2011) that a Roman Catholic priest has been arrested on charges he viewed child pornography on a computer in the rectory of his Pittsburgh-area church.

The Rev. Bartley Sorensen -- pastor of St. John Fisher Church in Churchill, Pennsylvania -- was arraigned on charges of possession of child pornography, according to the Diocese of Pittsburgh.

Sorensen, 62, was being held today in the Allegheny County Jail in lieu of a $100,000 bond.

Child abuse and sexual impropriety against Catholic clergy in the United States have rocked the Catholic Church since 2002, and the church has paid out some $2 billion in settlements to abuse victims.

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