PENNSYLVANIA
Houston Chronicle
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A suspended suburban Philadelphia priest has been sentenced to 20 years in prison on a child pornography conviction.
Fifty-six-year-old Mark Haynes of West Chester pleaded guilty in June to using the Internet to entice a minor to engage in sexual contact as well as to possession and distribution of child pornography and destroying or concealing evidence.
Prosecutors said that around 2010 Haynes posed as a 16-year-old girl named “Katie” on a teenage dating website, met minor girls online and requested that they take and send sexually explicit pictures.
Officials said he was vicar of Saints Simon & Jude parish in Westtown Township since September 2013 and served in seven other suburban Philadelphia parishes.
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