WORCESTER (MA)
GMA News (Philippines)
A Filipino Roman Catholic priest, who returned to the United States to surrender after a year of hiding in the Philippines over child pornography charges, is ordered held for $500,000 cash bail even as church leaders in Massachusetts asked the Vatican to defrock the embattled priest.
Rev. Lowe Dongor, 36, pleaded not guilty on child pornography and larceny charges during his arraignment on Dec. 24 in Worcester Superior Court in Massachusetts.
Dongor was associate pastor at St. Joseph’s Parish in Fitchburg, Mass. when he was initially charged in 2011.
Prosecutors said sexually explicit images of pre-teen girls was found on his laptop computer, and he was also accused of stealing from the church’s weekly collection.
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