BRADFORD -- A suspended priest in the Catholic Diocese of Erie is free on bond and awaits an April 20 court hearing to face charges related to an alleged inappropriate relationship with a 15-year-old boy.
The Rev. Samuel B. Slocum, 59, surrendered to law enforcement on Friday and was arraigned before Bradford District Judge Richard W. Luther Jr. on charges of interference with the custody of children, concealment of the whereabouts of a child, corruption of minors, defiant trespass and loitering and prowling at nighttime.
Police accuse Slocum, who serves two McKean County parishes, of allowing a 15-year-old boy to visit his residence in Lewis Run, south of Bradford, after the boy's mother had forbidden it. He is also accused of lying to the boy's mother when she asked if he had visited Slocum's residence, and of going to the boy's home to drop off an item.
Trooper Daniel Woods, who filed the charges against Slocum, said the boy's mother gave him iPhones, an iPod and an Apple laptop computer that she said Slocum had given to her son to use in communicating with him via Facebook, e-mail and text messages.
Investigators seized other computers, as well as a digital camera and a cellular telephone, when they served search warrants on Slocum's residences in Lewis Run and in Cyclone, southeast of Bradford, on March 29 and 30, according to the affidavit of probable cause.
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