PENNSYLVANIA
The Morning Call
By Riley Yates, Of The Morning Call
5:19 p.m. EST, February 6, 2012
The same crime, a different victim.
The same phrases of piety, the same acts of immorality.
Disgraced Bethlehem pastor Santos A. Rosado was sentenced Monday to up to 19 years in state prison for systematically sexually abusing a girl for years starting when she was 12.
It marked the second child molestation case Rosado faced judgment for, and, like the first, his family cast him in court as a victim and not a perpetrator. They called him a man of God who has won forgiveness.
A Northampton County prosecutor called him a danger to society for his sexual proclivities. “This is the way he advises. This is his pastoral calling, so to speak,” said Assistant District Attorney Patricia Broscius.
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