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A local priest who pleaded guilty to inappropriate contact with a 15-year-old girl has avoided jail time.
The Rev. James Michael Taylor was ordered Wednesday to pay a $1,000 fine. He’s also been ordered not to have any contact with the girl for five years.
Taylor met the 15-year-old girl while he was a youth minister at Corpus Christi Church on Route 9 in Round Lake. The six-month-long relationship included inappropriate physical contact, along with phone calls, texts and photos.
At the time of his arrest this past April, Taylor was a priest at St. Kateri Tekakwitha Parish in Schenectady.
Taylor agreed to a plea deal last August in which he admitted to a charge endangering the welfare of a child. The plea deal allowed him to avoid jail time.
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