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Albany Times Union
By Dennis Yusko
Updated 10:37 am, Wednesday, April 23, 2014
BALLSTON SPA – A priest in the Albany Roman Catholic Diocese has been arrested and the Saratoga County District Attorney’s office says the charge involves an offense committed against a “minor female.”
Officials identified him as James Michael Taylor, 30.
Authorities have not yet released charges he faces.
District Attorney James A. Murphy III and Sheriff Michael H. Zurlo will discuss the arrest at a 10:30 a.m. news conference.
Taylor was ordained in 2012. He was raised in a Protestant family in Georgia and began his conversion to Catholicism while a freshman in college. …
Murphy called it important that the child’s parents went to authorities rather than try to work out a secret agreement with the diocese, saying “a civil complaint would not have been appropriate remedy in this case.”…
The diocese released a statement about the arrest late Wednesday morning, stating that the diocese “notified law enforcement authorities in Saratoga County Monday afternoon immediately after receiving a complaint concerning a Diocesan priest and his alleged contact with a minor.”
The diocese said Scharfenberger placed the priest on administrative leave after his arraignment Tuesday and promised to “cooperate fully with the investigation.”
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