PENNSYLVANIA
Metro
A suburban priest who created a fake identity as a teenage girl online to obtain nude pictures of his underage victims pleaded guilty in federal court today.
Mark John Haynes, 56, a former priest at Saint Simon and Jude Church in West Chester, PA, pleaded guilty to child pornography charges and charges of destroying evidence.
He could face up to 10 years in jail.
Haynes was arrested in October 2014 after Chester County police tracked the source of child porn being posted on the internet to the church.
Haynes had created the identity of a 16-year-old girl, “Katie Caponetti,” which he used online to communicate with other minors and to exchange nude pictures and videos with them.
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