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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First Posted: April 01, 2014
ENFIELD, Connecticut — A suspended Connecticut priest charged in a federal firearms and explosives case has been arrested on allegations he sexually assaulted a minor.
The Rev. Paul Gotta was arrested Monday by East Windsor police on seven sexual assault charges. Police say the assaults took place over the span of a year beginning in January 2012.
Gotta is detained on $100,000 bail. His lawyer didn’t immediately return a message Tuesday.
Gotta was administrator of St. Philip and St. Catherine churches in East Windsor when the Archdiocese of Hartford suspended him last year when the sexual assault allegations surfaced.
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