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The Rev. Kevin Gugliotta, seen at left in a police mugshot and at right in a portrait for the Archdiocese of Newark, was arrested on child pornography charges in October.

HONESDALE, Pa. (AP) -- A Roman Catholic priest from New Jersey has pleaded guilty in Pennsylvania to uploading child pornography to an internet chat room.

The Rev. Kevin Gugliotta of Mahwah pleaded guilty to dissemination of child pornography. He faces up to seven years in prison when he's sentenced June 8 in Wayne County, Pennsylvania.

District Attorney Janine Edwards said Friday that Gugliotta downloaded child pornography to a personal laptop from his second home in Gouldsboro. The 55-year-old priest then uploaded the files to a chat room on 20 separate occasions last summer. The site alerted law enforcement.

Gugliotta was parochial vicar at Holy Spirit Church in Union, New Jersey. Newark Archbishop John J. Myers removed Gugliotta from ministry.

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.