PITTSBURGH (PA)
Reuters
By Alexis Kunsak
PITTSBURGH | Fri Jan 6, 2012
(Reuters) – A Catholic priest pleaded not guilty on Friday to federal child pornography on suspicion of possessing thousands of images of young boys engaged in sex acts.
Rev. Bartley Sorensen, 62, former pastor of St. John Fisher Church in Churchill near Pittsburgh, arrived at his arraignment in U.S. District Court wearing hand and leg shackles and in the custody of U.S. Marshals.
He pleaded not guilty to two counts of receiving and possessing child pornography.
He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of receiving child pornography on a computer and up to 10 years behind bars for possession of child pornography.
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