The Rev. Bartley Sorensen served as an assistant priest at St. Ferdinand’s in the 1970s.
A Catholic priest who served at St. Ferdinand’s Church in Cranberry decades ago has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison after pleading guilty to possessing thousands of pornographic images of children on his computer. U.S. District Judge Alan N. Bloch imposed the sentence Wednesday on the Rev. Bartley Sorensen, who was removed from active ministry and placed on administrative leave shortly after his arrest in December 2011. Once his sentence is complete, Sorensen will be under federal supervision for five years. He also was ordered to pay a $25,000 fine. Sorensen, 63, was assigned to Saint John Fisher Parish in Churchill prior to his arrest. According to the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, he also was first Parochial Vicar at…
Father Bartley Sorensen was an assistant priest at St. Ferdinand Church in the mid-1970s.
The Rev. Bartley Sorensen, the Catholic priest from St. John Fisher Church in Churchill who now is jailed on charges of possession of child pornography, once served a Cranberry parish as assistant priest. According to the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, Sorensen was first Parochial Vicar at St. Ferdinand Catholic Church in Cranberry from Nov. 1, 1976 to June 29, 1981. He was arrested over the weekend after an employee at St. John Fisher saw him in the church rectory viewing a computer image of a young boy naked from the waist down. On the computer screen were the words "Hottie Boys," KDKA reports. Once they learned of the situation, diocesan employees immediately contacted police, according to a statement from the diocese. Sorensen also …
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Mark A.
8:20 am on Friday, January 4, 2013
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