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	Altoona Priest Gets Probation for Having Sex with Inmate Associated Press, carried in PennLive May 2, 2008 http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/news-62/1209701999173850.xml&storylist=penn EBENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Franciscan priest from Altoona is on probation for 23 months for having sex with an inmate at a state prison and supplying him with alcohol. Sixty-seven-year-old Rev. Gerard Connolly was sentenced to probation at a hearing on Thursday. Connolly was chaplain at the State Correctional Institution-Cresson until March 2007 when his services were terminated. The victim in the case, William Victor, also became a defendant when he tried to bribe the chaplain. Victor pleaded guilty in February. He was sentenced to two years of probation. He will serve that sentence after he is released from prison. Victor is serving up to 86 years in prison for an armed sexual assault and attempted robbery in the Poconos.
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