Parents have succeeded in stopping the transfer of a Pittsburgh priest accused of fondling a teenaged girl, the Associated Press reports.
The Diocese of Pittsburgh had planned to reassign the Rev. Alvin Adams, accused of fondling a 16-year-old girl in the 1970s, to a convent. Two other individuals came forward subsequently with additional allegations.
Parents of children at a daycare center at the convent objected to the transfer, leading the diocese to drop the plan, the AP reports.
Adams, who has been on leave from his assignments as a parish priest and high school chaplain since last March, has denied the allegations. The diocese found one of the allegations to be credible, the AP reports, leading to the transfer decision.