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PhillyVoice
BY DANIEL CRAIG
PhillyVoice Staff
A former Chester County priest will go to prison for two decades for the distribution of child pornography, according to media reports.
Both Jeremy Roebuck of the Philadelphia Inquirer and FOX29 tweeted Wednesday that Mark Haynes was given a sentence of 20 years.
Details regarding the circumstances of his sentence were not immediately made available.
Haynes, 56, pleaded guilty to charges related to the distribution of child pornography in June.
Prosecutors said that Haynes, who last served as parochial vicar at Saints Simon and Jude Parish in West Chester before his 2014 arrest, posed as a 16-year-old girl to obtain sexually explicit photos from underage girls online.
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