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	Former Brooklyn Priest Heading to Prison for Abusing Child Empire State News October 26, 2007 http://www.empirestatenews.net/News/20071026-11.html Riverhead — An inactive Catholic priest who pleaded guilty to second-degree course of sexual conduct will be remanded to state prison on Friday. Barry Ryan, 59, will appear before Suffolk County Court Judge Ralph Gazzillo in Riverhead. At Friday's court appearance, the judge will recall a bench warrant issued last August and send the former cleric to state prison for two years. Ryan pled guilty to sexually molesting a 5-year-old boy. The defendant was ordained in 1976 and served in two parishes in Brooklyn before enlisting as a chaplain in the Air Force. Ryan also taught high school in Palm City, Florida. He left the service, and active service as a priest, in 1995. Ryan has been under hospice care for liver cancer since his plea in December of 2004.
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