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	Priest Seens Reduced Sentence for Child Porn Parole Violation A Roman Catholic Priest Serving Four to 10 Years in State Prison for Violating Parole in a Child Pornography Case Is Seeking a Reduced Sentence. Associated Press, carried on NEPA News [Pennsylvania] April 10, 2007 http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18188683&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6 The Rev. Ronald J. Yarrosh, 59, was sentenced in August 2005 to three to 23 months in Schuylkill County Prison for taking more than $23,000 from St. Ambrose Church in Schuylkill Haven, where he was an assistant pastor. The Diocese of Allentown relieved Yarrosh of his duties when he was charged in the embezzlement. Yarrosh was sentenced to 10 years of probation because police investigating the embezzlement found hundreds of images of child pornography. Officials said he then bought child pornography, took a stripper's 7-year-old daughter to lunch, and drank alcohol, violating his probation. In an appeal, Assistant Public Defender Christopher W. Hobbs argued that Yarrosh should not have received such a severe sentence for the probation violation because he was not charged with any new crimes.
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