PENNSYLVANIA
Beaumont Enterprise
By JOE MANDAK, Associated Press
Updated 10:08 am, Monday, February 24, 2014
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pennsylvania appeals court has upheld an ex-priest’s conviction on a charge that he corrupted a 15-year-old boy by encouraging the teen to disobey his mother, but one judge argues they may have illegally broadened the statute in the process.
Friday’s Superior Court ruling concerns the 2012 conviction of Samuel Slocum, a suspended Bradford priest accused of encouraging the teen to visit him even after his mother forbade that. Slocum wasn’t accused of sexually abusing the boy, though McKean County prosecutors argued some comments by the priest were flirtatious.
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