Other priests with ties to the Diocese of Allentown who have been charged with crimes: The Rev. Thomas Bender, sentenced to seven years' probation in 1988 for molesting a teenage Pottsville boy in the 1980s.
Monsignor Steven T. Forish, charged with soliciting boys for sex in south Bethlehem in 1996, acquitted in 1998. Charged with asking a 26-year-old man for "sexual favors" in Greensburg, Westmoreland County in August 2006. He was killed in a car crash in Carbon County in December 2006.
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Monsignor Steven T. Forish, charged with soliciting boys for sex in south Bethlehem in 1996, acquitted in 1998. Charged with asking a 26-year-old man for "sexual favors" in Greensburg, Westmoreland County in August 2006. He was killed in a car crash in Carbon County in December 2006.
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