Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin will announce charges Tuesday afternoon against a Roman Catholic priest, according to an alert about a news conference.

The announcement is planned for 3 p.m. is Martin's office in the Lehigh County Courthouse on West Hamilton Street in Allentown.

A grand jury's report released in recent days indicates 301 priests across six Roman Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania -- including 35 named in the Diocese of Allentown -- were accused of abuse beginning in the mid-1950s.

Many of the crimes are past the statue of limitations, but a small number weren't.

It wasn't immediately clear if the charges Martin's reporting are related to any of the crimes listed in the grand jury's report.

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