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	McAdoo Priest Charged for Asking Man for Sex Standard Speaker September 15, 2006 http://www.standardspeaker.com/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=2938&Itemid=2 A McAdoo monsignor on inactive status with the Diocese of Allentown was arrested last month after asking a 26-year-old man for sex in western Pennsylvania where he has worked as a psychologist. Monsignor Stephen Forish was acquitted of similar charges eight years ago in Northampton County and McAdoo police watched him in the early 1990s but never charged him after receiving complaints from parents, The Morning Call of Allentown reported Thursday. Forish, who returned to McAdoo since his arrest, was charged with harassment and disorderly conduct by state police in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, who said he made inappropriate comments – and used obscene language when asking for sex Aug. 6. He asked to go on inactive status as a priest four years ago when he began earning his doctorate in psychology and doesn't wear a priest's collar in his work. In 1996, Forish was charged with offering money to a Bethlehem man for sex, but he was acquitted two years later. On Friday, Joseph Litchko, a McAdoo police chief during the 1990s, said he "knew something was going on" with Forish and that Forish had been arrested in Northampton County but beyond that Litchko had no other comments.
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