PENNSYLVANIA
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BY REBEKAH BROWN (STAFF WRITER)
Published: February 2, 2014
SCRANTON – A suspended priest accused of performing sex acts on a 15-year-old boy pleaded guilty to felony corruption of minors.
The Rev. William Jeffrey Paulish of Blakely, who served at a parish in Hazleton in the 1990s, entered the plea Jan. 22 before Lackawanna County Judge Michael Barrasse.
The priest was arrested in September after police found him and the teen in his car in the parking lot at Penn State Worthington Scranton campus.
The teenager, who wasn’t wearing pants when police arrived, later told officials at the Children’s Advocacy Center of Northeast Pennsylvania he performed oral sex on the priest.
The felony charge carries a maximum sentence of seven years in prison, according to the Rev. Paulish’s attorney, Bernard Brown, who said his client is remorseful for his actions.
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