PITTSBURGH (PA)
Reuters
By Alexis Kunsak
PITTSBURGH | Thu Jan 5, 2012
(Reuters) – A Catholic priest already charged in state court with possessing thousands of pornographic images of young boys is due in a Pittsburgh courtroom on Friday on new federal charges, authorities said.
A federal grand jury, in an indictment unsealed late on Wednesday, charged the Rev. Bartley Sorensen, 62, former pastor of St. John Fisher Church in Churchill near Pittsburgh, with one count each of receiving and possessing pictures of minors engaged in sex acts.
If convicted of the federal charges, Sorensen faces up to 20 years in prison for receiving child pornography on a computer and up to 10 years behind bars for possession of child pornography.
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