UNITED STATES
Catholic Culture
Catholic World News – October 28, 2014
In recent weeks, four US priests have been arrested or indicted on separate child pornography charges. Father Mark Haynes, a 59-year-old priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, was charged with six counts of possessing and disseminating child pornography. According to the local district attorney, he posted the images online using his Instagram account. Father Joseph Maurizio, a priest of the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown (PA), was indicted on sex tourism charges after he allegedly traveled to Honduras each year for a decade and money or candy to boys at an orphanage in exchange for sexual activity. The 69-year-old priest was also charged with child pornography on a computer hard drive.
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