BERLIN (CT)
The Hartford Courant
By SAMAIA HERNANDEZ, smhernandez@courant.com
The Hartford Courant
6:12 p.m. EDT, June 21, 2012
BERLIN—
Nearly a year after a Berlin priest was accused of using social media to converse with a 13-year-old boy about sex, he is facing additional felony charges after officers examined the contents of his computer and cellphone, police said.
The Rev. Michael Miller, 42, surrendered to police in Berlin last Thursday. He is charged with 10 counts of risk of injury, two counts of obscenity and third-degree child pornography.
He allegedly used Facebook and text messaging on his cellphone to communicate with a boy he knew from his work at St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church in Kensington. He was suspended from the ministry by the Archdiocese of Hartford.
Miller admitted to detectives that he, on at least two occasions, offered the boy oral sex, according to an arrest warrant. In 2011, he was charged with five counts of risk of injury and one count of attempted obscenity.
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