SCRANTON (PA)
Times-Tribune
Published: May 24, 2013
SCRANTON – A Diocese of Scranton priest was charged with open lewdness and consuming alcohol at a Bradford County park, officials said Thursday.
The Rev. Daniel J. Doherty, who has been working as an assistant pastor in Tunkhannock and Lake Winola, was charged after he and a woman were involved in a lewd act at Wyalusing Borough Park, according to a diocese news release. He also has served as an assistant pastor at St. John the Evangelist and Sacred Heart in Wilkes-Barre from 1994-1997 and at St. Rose in Carbondale from 1997-1999.
Police in Laceyville, who are investigating the case, could not be reached late Thursday.
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