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  Former Priest Pleads Guilty

WBNG
November 19, 2010

http://www.wbng.com/news/local/Former-Priest-Pleads-Guilty-109252734.html

Montrose, PA (WBNG Binghamton) A man accused of coercing minors to have sex while he was a priest pleads guilty in Susquehanna County.



Ralph Johnson, 82, of Gibson appeared at the courthouse in Montrose.

He plead guilty to two charges related to engaging in sex with minors.

Johnson was a priest at St Ann's Church in Afton.

A man came forward and accused Johnson of molesting him for 4 years back in the 1990s when he was a teenager.

Other victims also came forward, including a man with a mental disability who said Johnson sexually assaulted him at age 14.

Johnson will be sentenced at the end of March in 2011.

 
 

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