{"id":262122,"date":"2017-08-25T16:20:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T20:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=262122"},"modified":"2020-11-30T10:14:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T15:14:04","slug":"priest-peddled-child-porn-to-punish-god-for-poker-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/priest-peddled-child-porn-to-punish-god-for-poker-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Priest peddled child porn to \u2018punish God\u2019 for poker losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>The morning laugh\u2026 punishing his imaginary god for his poker losses\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A Pennsylvania priest, convicted of downloading child pornograhpy, said he commited the crime to get revenge on God \u2013 who he felt was attacking him when he lost poker games.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Gugliotta, 55, from Mahwah, New Jersey, and a former priest in Honesdale, PA, was sentenced to 11 to 23 months in jail on Thursday, with credit for 10 months of time served while awaiting trial.<\/p>\n<p>According to pre-trial records, Gugliotta told probation officers that he was an avid poker player, and he felt God was attacking him when he lost games. To get revenge on God, Gugliotta said, he downloaded child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was his reason. He&#8217;s not happy that&#8217;s how he felt, as the judge indicated. There are other ways to handle issues and handle anger,\u201d said Gugliotta\u2019s attorney, Jim Swetz, to WNEP.<\/p>\n<p>Gugliotta was arrested in September 2016 and charged with 20 counts of possessing child porn and 20 counts of disseminating images of children involved in sexual acts. In March, he pleaded guilty to one count of dissemination in return for the 39 other counts being dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Gugliotta will remain on probation for five years following his release and is required to register as a sex offender for 25 years. He was removed from his parish by the Archdiocese of Newark in September, after they learned of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Gugliotta could also face removal from priesthood \u201cnow that the process in the courts has been completed,\u201d said Jim Goodness, director of communications for the Archdiocese of Newark, to the Seattle Times. \u201cWe\u2019ve also kept Rome abreast of the situation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/400904-priest-child-pornography-poker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/400904-priest-child-pornography-poker\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: The morning laugh\u2026 punishing his imaginary god for his poker losses\u2026 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":285193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}