CONNECTICUT
Hartford Courant
Edmund H. Mahony
A former priest who once worked at two parishes in East Windsor was sentenced to nine months in prison Friday in U.S. District Court for helping a former alter boy obtain a weapon and ammunition.
While assigned to the parishes of St. Philip and St. Catherine in East Windsor, Paul Gotta, 59, of Bridgeport admitted helping the former alter boy, a minor, obtain a handgun, ammunition, gun powder and materials that could have been used to make a pipe bomb.
Gotta was popular with his parishioners, but the nature of his relationship with the former alter boy has been disputed.
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