NEW JERSEY: Catholic Priest Busted For Child Porn, Charged With 40 Felony Counts Of Sexual Abuse

NJ.com reports:

A Roman Catholic priest from New Jersey has been arrested on child pornography charges. Kevin Gugliotta, 54, of Mahwah allegedly uploaded illicit images from a computer in his vacation home in Lehigh Township, Pa. on July 9, the Wayne County District Attorney said in a news release on Wednesday.

Gugliotta worked at Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Church in Union, but has been removed from the parish, according to a spokesman for the Newark Archdiocese. He faces 40 counts of sexual abuse of children — 20 counts of possession of child pornography and 20 counts of dissemination of child pornography.

Officials in Wayne County learned about the uploaded images in August and began an investigation. They eventually learned the IP address was registered to Gugliotta’s vacation home. Gugliotta was taken into custody at a home in Toms River on Thursday. He is in the Ocean County jail awaiting extradition to Pennsylvania.

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According to online poker database The Hendon Mob, Gugliotta has also won hundreds of thousands of dollars playing poker over the last several years. Gugliotta is ranked 4,187th on the United States All Time Money List and 193rd on the state’s All Time Money List, according to the same database. According to federal bankruptcy court records, Gugliotta also filed for chapter-seven bankruptcy in 2009. Administrators at Holy Spirit Church were not available for comment Tuesday.

Gugliotta was a recent transfer to Holy Spirit. His LinkedIn page indicates he worked at Church of the Immaculate Conception in Mahwah for 16 months, ending in August of this year. Before working at Immaculate Conception he studied for a doctorate degree in education at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. Before grad school, Gugliotta served eight years at St. Bartholomew the Apostle Church in Scotch Plains, according to fliers from that parish.

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