Child Molester Priest Blames God Because His Gambling Loses
The only reason I'm posting this story is to highlight the issue again of Priest going for young boys. Boys, particularly if they are not sure of their sexual orienttion they would hesitate to expose the priest or person of authority because they would be afraid of what they erroneously think could also expose them as well. If these priests would only see this as an illness they can get help for instead of blaming it to any excuse under the sun. If you are doing something that hurts someone else it needs to be stopped on your own or with help. Being put on a sexual register for life and doing jail time should not be what makes one of these guys change course. They might never be cured; Im not an expert but they can be stopped from hurting boys when they are vulnerable. If a priest or coach knows of this problem, why hang around boys? Kids can be many things because they have not formed a character which carries them to adulthood. Being around food when you have an addiction to food means you are not serious about changing.
A New Jersey priest says he was trying to get revenge on God for poker losses when he collected computerized child pornography at his weekend home in northeastern Pennsylvania, according to his attorney and court records.
The Rev. Kevin Gugliotta was sentenced Thursday to 11½ to 23½ months in the Wayne County jail, receiving credit for 10 months he’s already served. He pleaded guilty in March to a single count of disseminating child pornography after prosecutors dropped dozens of other charges that he possessed and distributed child porn.
Pretrial records show the 55-year-old Gugliotta told probation officers he felt God was attacking him when he lost poker tournaments and games and got “revenge” by collecting the porn.
“That was his reason,” defense attorney James Swetz said. “He’s not happy that’s how he felt, as the judge indicated. There are other ways to handle issues and handle anger.”
Jim Goodness, director of communications for the Archdiocese of Newark, said Gugliotta has been removed from public ministry since church officials learned of the investigation in September.
Additional discipline, including possible removal from the priesthood, is possible “now that the process in the courts has been completed,” Goodness said. “We’ve also kept Rome abreast of the situation.”
The Monroe County, Pennsylvania district attorney’s office last August was investigating child pornography and determined some had been uploaded to a computer at Gugliotta’s weekend home in Gouldsboro. The tiny Pennsylvania hamlet is about 90 miles west of Holy Spirit Church, where he served as parochial vicar in Union, New Jersey.
Monroe County authorities alerted those in Wayne County, who tried to search the Gouldsboro home in September. But authorities couldn’t find Gugliotta at home and couldn’t lure him there using a ruse so they could search the computer before he had a chance to destroy the evidence.
Wayne County authorities wound up tracking down the priest at the New Jersey church where they interviewed him and found his laptop computer in the church rectory.
Gugliotta had previously been suspended from ministry in 2003 for allegedly molesting a teenage boy in the 1980s. But because the incident occurred when he was still a layman and before he entered the priesthood, the Archdiocese of Newark ruled he could not be punished and quietly reinstated him in 2004.
He went on to have a long career in the priesthood, including ministering to youth groups.
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