| Central City Priest Arrested on Child Pornography Charges
By Dylan Johnson
Daily American
September 25, 2014
http://www.dailyamerican.com/central-city-priest-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/article_e41e800a-44ed-11e4-8022-0017a43b2370.html
entral City priest Joseph Maurizio Jr. was arrested today on allegations of child sexual exploitation.
Maurizio is charged with engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place and possession of child pornography.
Maurizio, a former paster of Our Lady Queen of Angels Parish, was placed on leave of duties Sept. 16, according to a press release from the Most Rev. Mark Bartchak, bishop of the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown.
Several Central City residents reported seeing Department of Homeland Security agents at the church earlier this month.
More on this story will be published as it becomes available.
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