PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer
BY JOHN P. MARTIN & JOSEPH A. SLOBODZIAN
Inquirer Staff Writers
A HAVERTOWN pastor testified Wednesday that the Archdiocese of Philadelphia sent a priest to his parish in 2002 without telling him that the man had been caught with gay sadomasochistic videos and a sexually graphic love letter he’d written to a seventh-grade boy.
The Rev. Henry McKee, pastor of Sacred Heart Church, said that nearly three years passed before he learned of the Rev. Michael Murtha’s background.
“It was the last two to three weeks he was there,” McKee told a Common Pleas Court jury.
McKee was one of four priests who testified Wednesday as prosecutors sought to show how Msgr. William J. Lynn and other church leaders shuffled and protected priests suspected of sexual misconduct or abuse.
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