Fr. Kevin A. Gugliotta

Gugliotta was suspended in 2003 after an allegation that he sexually abused a 16-year-old boy prior to ordination in the 1980s, when he was a Boy Scout leader. There were no criminal charges due to the statute of limitations. He was later sued. In 12/2004 he was reinstated without restrictions, including as a youth group chaplain in Scotch Plains. Gugliotta was arrested in NJ 10/20/2016 on child pornography charges in PA, where he stayed in apartment a few times per week. He had uploaded from his computer to internet chat rooms twenty files of child abuse images. He had been removed from Holy Spirit in Union NJ earlier in the month due to the investigation and was considered a “fugitive from justice.” He had been at the parish just a few weeks, after eight years at St. Bartholomew in Scotch Plains. He pleaded guilty in 3/2017 and was sentenced in 8/2017 to eleven and a half to twenty three and a half  months in prison, to register as a sex offender, and to five years probation. Gugliotta was a nationally ranked poker player. He said he uploaded the pornography to get back at God because he wasn’t winning poker tournaments. Included 2/13/2019 on the Archdiocese’s list of credibly accused, noted to have been permanently removed from ministry. Accused in a 3/2009 lawsuit of the sexual abuse of an 11-year-old Scotch Plains boy in 2004. Another lawsuit in 4/2021 claims Gugliotta sexually abused a boy, age 9, in 2006.