CONNECTICUT
Journal Inquirer
By Alex Wood
Journal Inquirer
The priest who formerly served East Windsor’s two Roman Catholic parishes was to be sentenced Thursday for providing gunpowder to a juvenile parishioner, and federal prosecutors wanted to use the occasion essentially to put him on trial on accusations that he had sexually assaulted the boy as well.
But Judge Robert N. Chatigny torpedoed the plan, causing more delay in the sentencing of the priest, Paul A. Gotta, in U.S. District Court in Hartford.
In July 2013 Gotta was placed on leave from his post as administrator
of St. Philip Church on South Main Street and St. Catherine Church on Windsorville Road as a result of sexual abuse allegations by the boy, Kyle Bass, who had been arrested on firearms charges.
The issue the judge faced Thursday is a result of federal sentencing procedures in which a judge who is sentencing a defendant for a crime can also consider other misconduct by the defendant.
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