PENNSYLVANIA
The Morning Call
By Chris Parker
Of The Morning Call
A Schuylkill County Catholic priest who admitted owning hundreds of child pornography movies and photos and embezzling more than $23,000 from a church has been sentenced to three to 23 months in prison and 10 years' probation.
As a sex offender, the Rev. Ronald J. Yarrosh, 57, will have to register his address with state police for 10 years after he is released from prison under Megan's Law. If he had been found to be a sexually violent predator he would have had to register with police for the rest of his life.
But Yarrosh can never have another church assignment, Allentown Diocese spokesman Matt Kerr said.
''He will never be in active ministry again,'' Kerr said.
Any action to remove Yarrosh from the priesthood would have to be made by the Vatican, Kerr said.
Yarrosh was sentenced Monday by Schuylkill County President Judge William Baldwin and immediately taken to county prison.