PENNSYLVANIA
Daily Mail
By DARREN BOYLE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 08:10 EST, 26 September 2014
Federal prosecutors have charged a Roman Catholic priest who is alleged to have engaged in ‘illicit sexual conduct’ with children and as well as possessing images of child abuse in the rectory of his church.
Fr Joseph D. Maurizo Jr, 69 was charged following an investigation by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Secuirty Investigations unit into his activities during trips to Honduras.
Fr Maurizo appeared in Federal court yesterday in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and was remanded in custody until Monday morning.
Fr Maurizo was parish priest at Our Lady Queen of Angels Church in Central City, Pennsylvania until his arrest when he was forced to stand aside.
According to Federal prosecutors, between 1999 and 2009 Maurizo travelled from Pennsylvania to Honduras as part of a non-profit organisation he established providing help to small children in Central America.
Each trip lasted between two and three weeks.
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