Area priest accused of sex with boy
PENNSYLVANIA
Times-Leader
September 21. 2013
By Roger DuPuis – rdupuis@civitasmedia.com
SCRANTON — A priest who has served at more than a dozen Northeastern Pennsylvania parishes — including several in Luzerne County — has been suspended from his post in Old Forge after he allegedly was caught in a car on a college campus having sex with a boy.
Security officers at Penn State Worthington Scranton say they discovered the Rev. William Jeffery Paulish, 56, parked in a red Toyota Thursday night with a 15-year-old boy who wasn’t wearing any pants, according to an affidavit.
The priest told investigators he arraigned the liaison via postings on the website Craigslist, Lackawanna County Deputy District Attorney Jennifer McCambridge said Friday night.
Paulish initially told police he was walking around campus working on his homily, according to the affidavit. He said he encountered the boy by chance, learned that the teen was in…
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