NEW YORK
The Buffalo News
By Jay Tokasz | News Staff Reporter
on August 16, 2013
A Franciscan priest who once taught at St. Francis High School in Athol Springs received a 20-year prison term, to be suspended after five years, on charges of possessing child pornography and risking injury to a minor in Connecticut.
The sentence on Thursday in New Britain, Conn., Superior Court stems from the 2011 arrest of the Rev. Michael Miller, who at the time was serving as assistant pastor of St. Paul Church in Kensington, Conn.
Police charged him with five felony counts of risking injury or impairing the morals of a minor.
The Hartford Courant reported Miller engaged in inappropriate Facebook chats with seven teenagers and wrote to a boy in graphic detail about sex acts he wanted to perform on the boy.
No illegal physical contact was alleged against Miller, 43, who pleaded guilty in May.
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