PENNSYLVANIA
Philly.com
A priest at a Chester County parish is facing charges in the alleged possession and distribution of child pornography.
The county District Attorney’s Office said the Rev. Mark Haynes, 55, a priest at SS. Simon and Jude Parish in Westtown Township, was accused of posting sexually explicit images of a teenage girl on Instagram.
The investigation began last month, when law enforcement officials received information from the social media site about images of naked young girls.
Detectives traced the e-mail address associated with the account to SS. Simon and Jude, and eventually to Haynes, prosecutors said.
Investigators also found that Haynes received and posted other images, and exchanged lewd e-mails with an unidentified 14-year-old girl posing as a 16-year-old girl, prosecutors said.
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