Somerset County priest found guilty of molesting Honduran orphans

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

September 22, 2015

Torsten Ove/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A federal jury in Johnstown today found a Somerset County priest, the Rev. Joseph Maurizio, guilty of molesting Honduran orphans on mission trips.

After deliberating about 12 hours over two days in U.S. District Court, the jury found him guilty on three counts of molesting three boys, a count of possession of child pornography and a count of transferring money outside the country for the purposes of illegal sexual activity.

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