PENNSYLVANIA
Times-Tribune

BY JOSEPH KOHUT (STAFF WRITER)
Published: September 20, 2013

An assistant pastor from an Old Forge church is charged for sex crimes involving a 15-year-old boy, Deputy District Attorney Jennifer McCambridge said.

Reverend William Jeffery Paulish, of Blakely, was caught by Penn State Worthington-Scranton security in a car in a parking lot with the teen around 9:30 last night, she said.

It wasn’t immediately clear what the security guards saw in the car, but it raised enough suspicion to call police, Miss McCambridge said.

Miss McCambridge said the priest had arranged the encounter with the boy through an advertisement on Craigslist.

Rev. Paulish is an assistant pastor at Prince of Peace Parish in Old Forge, according to the church web site.