Ex-priest Downloaded Child Porn at Wayne County Apartment
By Peter Cameron
A New Jersey priest who kept a Wayne County apartment he called his “day off place” pleaded guilty Friday to downloading child pornography there. The Rev. Kevin A. Gugliotta, 55, of Mahwah, New Jersey, pleaded guilty to dissemination of photos/film of child sex acts, a felony, Wayne County District Attorney Janine Edwards announced Friday. He faces a maximum of seven years in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for June 8. The priest remains locked up in the Wayne County Correctional Facility. Law enforcement officers arrested the priest in October. He downloaded child pornography, then uploaded files on 20 separate occasions to the website chatstep.com in the summer of 2016 from his apartment at 108 Third St., Gouldsboro, in Lehigh Twp., Edwards said. The website then provided tips to law enforcement, which detectives traced to his address. Archbishop John J. Myers removed Gugliotta from ministry and ordered him to vacate his most recent assignment at Holy Spirit Church in Union, New Jersey, immediately upon learning of the allegations, the Archdiocese of Newark said in a statement. Due to the conviction, he must register as a sex offender for 25 years. A joint investigation of the crimes consisted of the Monroe County district attorney’s office, the Lehigh Twp. Police Department, the Toms River, New Jersey, police and the Wayne County district attorney’s office, Edwards said. Gugliotta is a nationally ranked poker player who has won hundreds of thousands of dollars playing poker over the last several years, the Asbury Park Press reported. Contact the writer: Contact: pcameron@timesshamrock.com
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