Crime & Safety
Priest Indicted on Porn Charges
Rev. Bartley Sorensen has been suspended by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh.
Rev. Bartley Sorensen, 62, formerly of St. Anne Church in Castle Shannon, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges he possessed thousands of images of child pornography, according to a report by WTAE.
Sorensen was arrested Dec. 10 after an employee at St. John Fisher Parish in Churchill, where he was working at the time, reported seeing Sorensen looking at child pornography at the church.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh has suspended Sorensen, WTAE reports.
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