CONNECTICUT
Journal Inquirer
By Alex Wood
Journal Inquirer
The former pastor of East Windsor’s two Roman Catholic churches who was accused of sexually assaulting a teenage parishioner was convicted Wednesday of a sharply reduced charge in a plea bargain and received a sentence without immediate prison time, court records show.
The Rev. Paul A. Gotta — who had been administrator of St. Philip Church on South Main Street and St. Catherine Church on Windsorville Road — was convicted in the Hartford Superior Court plea deal of a single misdemeanor count of second-degree breach of peace. The conviction was under a subsection of the breach-of-peace statute that deals with assaulting or striking another person.
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