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	Inmate Pleads Guilty to Extortion Involving Prison Chaplain Associated Press, carried in PennLive February 27, 2008 http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2008/02/inmate_pleads_guilty_to_extort.html EBENSBURG — A state prison inmate pleaded guilty to extorting money from a chaplain accused of having sex with him at the prison. William Victor, 37, was sentenced to two years of probation after pleading guilty to theft by extortion on Monday in Cambria County Court. The sentence will begin after he completes a term of more than 42 years for sexually assaulting a woman at gunpoint and trying to rob the woman and her husband at a resort in the Poconos. Prosecutors said Victor extorted $7,600 from the Rev. Gerard M. Connolly, a Franciscan priest who was a chaplain at the State Correctional Institution-Cresson. Connolly, 66, of Altoona, faces trial on 12 counts of institutional sex assault and five counts of taking contraband alcohol into prison. Connolly was prison chaplain for about a year before his services were terminated in March of 2007. The sex allegations arose after prison authorities asked Victor about a money order sent to his prison account in January of last year. Victor is now serving his sentence at the state prison in Huntingdon.
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