(Fox 2) – A New Jersey teacher who had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl and later impregnated her while he was a Catholic priest will get to keep his job at a middle school. An arbitrator in the case made the decision in early April, according to court documents. Joseph DeShan, 59, worked for the Cinnaminson School District at an elementary and middle school for 22 years, according to the documents. He started working there in 1996,
two years after he left the priesthood and six years after having a child with a minor. DeShan was a priest for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport in Connecticut. In 1988, he had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl, who became pregnant and had a child in 1990. In 2002, Connecticut newspapers began reporting about DeShan’s relationship with the minor. In April that year, the Cinnaminson Board of Education placed DeShan on administrative leave because it was unaware that he was a former priest or of his relationship with a minor. READ MORE
