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PITTSBURGH (AP) — A federal magistrate is being asked to decide whether a western Pennsylvania will remain jailed until he can stand trial on charges he traveled to Honduras to engage in sex with children where he had been promoting missionary work with the poor.
The Rev. Joseph Maurizio Jr. was arrested Thursday faces a detention hearing Monday in Johnstown.
Bishop Mark Bartchak of the Altoona-Johnstown diocese announced Maurizio was placed on leave Sept. 16. That happened four days after ICE agents searched a private residence and the rectory at Our Lady Queen of Angels’ rectory in Central City, Somerset County, where Maurizio had been pastor.
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