YORK (PA)
York Daily Record

November 5, 2020

By Dylan Segelbaum

https://www.ydr.com/story/news/crime/2020/11/05/former-roman-catholic-priest-pleads-guilty-to-sexually-abusing-two-boys-dauphin-county-pennsylvania/6171595002/

As part of a plea agreement, John Allen, 76, of West Manchester Township, is set to be sentenced to five years’ probation on Jan. 21, 2021.

A former priest who is one of more than 300 clergy named in a landmark investigating grand jury report about widespread sexual abuse and institutional coverup in the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania pleaded guilty on Thursday in Dauphin County to assaulting two altar boys between 1997 and 2002.

John Allen, 76, of West Manchester Township, appeared via video conference before Common Pleas Judge Deborah E. Curcillo, and admitted to sexually touching the boys over their clothes while at St. Margaret Mary Alacoque Church in Penbrook. He’s set to be sentenced to five years’ probation on Jan. 21, 2021, as part of a plea agreement on charges of indecent assault and…