Article: PRIEST GUILTY OF PUBLIC INDECENCY

Also gave liquor to minors, may be defrocked

DAYTON - A 63-year-old Catholic priest, the Rev. Thomas Kuhn, pleaded no contest and was convicted Wednesday on 11 misdemeanor charges of public indecency and providing alcohol to minors.

Kuhn, former pastor of St. Henry Catholic Church in Miami Twp., was convicted by Judge Mary Katherine Huffman of Montgomery County Common Pleas Court, who set sentencing for July 21.

The offenses occurred at Kuhn's former home in Miami Twp. between November 2001 and January 2002, and involved four boys and one girl, all 18 or younger.

Two of the boys attended the 17-minute plea hearing, but they did not speak or identify themselves, Detective Jim Kelly of the ...

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