Authorities are investigating allegations that a Lehigh County priest sexually abused a minor.
The Rev. Robert J. Potts, 82, pastor of St. Ursula Church in Fountain Hill, has been removed from ministry services. Potts is accused of sexually abused a child in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Diocese of Allentown announced Sunday.
Potts was the pastor at St. George Parish in Shenandoah during the time of the alleged abuses.
The allegation had been reported to the Independent Reconciliation and Compensation program, a fund that pays damages to victims of clergy abuse in the Allentown diocese. Administrators with the program, which is run independently from the diocese, notified the diocese after receiving information about the alleged abuse.
Allentown Bishop Alfred Schlert immediately removed Potts from service and notified authorities.
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