Ex-priest from East Windsor Sentenced in Gun Case

By Edmund H. Mahony
Hartford Courant
March 24, 2017

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-ex-priest-guns-sentence-20170324-story.html

A former priest who once worked at two parishes in East Windsor was sentenced to nine months in prison Friday in U.S. District Court for helping a former alter boy obtain a weapon and ammunition.

While assigned to the parishes of St. Philip and St. Catherine in East Windsor, Paul Gotta, 59, of Bridgeport admitted helping the former alter boy, a minor, obtain a handgun, ammunition, gun powder and materials that could have been used to make a pipe bomb.

Gotta was popular with his parishioners, but the nature of his relationship with the former alter boy has been disputed.

Gotta was given a suspended sentence in state court after pleading to a breach of peace charge. He pleaded guilty to one count of knowingly and willfully distributing an explosive material to an individual who was under 21 years of age in federal court.