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Bucks Local News
By Patti Mengers
21st Century Media
Chester County detectives have arrested a 55-year-old priest who formerly served at two Bucks County parishes, for possessing and electronically distributing child pornography via email and Instagram, Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan announced Friday.
The Rev. Mark Haynes, who was parochial vicar at SS. Simon and Jude Parish in Westtown Township from Sept. 3, 2013, until his arrest Thursday, served at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Doylestown, from 1989 to 1991, and Our Lady of Good Counsel, Southampton, from 1994 to 2000.
Haynes also served as chaplain at Archbishop Wood High School in Warminster from 1990 to 1991.
He was immediately placed on administrative leave Thursday and no longer resides at SS. Simon and Jude Parish, said Kenneth Gavin, director of communications for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
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