Advocates: Ex-priest Should Remain Jailed

By Kevin Kearney
Wayne Independent
February 16, 2017

http://www.wayneindependent.com/news/20170215/advocates-ex-priest-should-remain-jailed

An imprisoned former Roman Catholic priest who is up for parole this year should remain in jail until he serves the maximum sentence of 18 years, victims advocates believe.

Steven J. Wolpert, 63, was sentenced in 2008 to nine to 18 years in state prison after pleading guilty to involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child younger than 13.

The defendant, who served as a priest in Brooklyn, N.Y., was charged after he abused the 8-year-old boy in Hawley between 2006 and 2007.

The prospect of the sex offender serving only have his sentence does not sit well with Michele Minor Wolf, executive director of Honesdale-based Victims' Intervention Program.

Contact: kkearney@wayneindependent.com