PENNSYLVANIA
Courier Express
Associated Press
WESTTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Philadelphia-area priest has been arrested on charges of posting and exchanging child porn images on a photo-sharing site.
Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan said Friday the Rev. Mark Haynes was taken into custody on charges of child pornography, disseminating images of child sex acts and criminal use of a communications facility.
Police say images of naked underage girls were found on an Instagram account with the user name “Katie” but belonging to 55-year-old Haynes, who has been vicar of Saints Simon & Jude parish in Westtown Township since September 2013.
Detective Joseph Walton said in a criminal complaint that Haynes acknowledged receiving about 100 images and sending about 50 to others. Police said he told them that he posed as a 16-year-old girl on a dating site around four years ago and received lewd videos from someone he believed to be a 14-year-old girl.
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