PENNSYLVANIA
The Reporter
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG, mgoldberg@thereporteronline.com
POSTED: 02/16/14
SKIPPACK — A Lansdale priest who allegedly admitted to detectives that he touched a man’s genitals without consent in a YMCA locker room in December is headed for trial in the case after waiving his preliminary hearing in district court.
John H. Roebuck, 64 — a parochial vicar at Saint Stanislaus Roman Catholic Church in Lansdale until December, when he was placed on administrative leave by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia — waived charges of second-degree misdemeanor indecent assault and summary harassment on Feb. 11 before District Judge Albert Augustine of Skippack.
Roebuck remains free on $50,000 unsecured bail, which was set by Augustine at his Jan. 17 preliminary arraignment, while awaiting formal arraignment in county court.
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