High Risk Sex Offender, Former Carmel Priest, Living In Southeast
SOUTHEAST, N.Y. -- A popular former local priest, who is now considered a level three sex offender, is living in Southeast, according to Putnam Sheriff Donald B. Smith.
Joseph Faraone, 69, made national headlines after he abused a 50-year-old female patient at a local nonprofit human service organization where he worked in August 2015, according to state police.
Faraone, who currently lives at the Bel Aire Motor Lodge on Route 22, was charged with sodomizing someone incapable of consent due to a mental disability or incapacity.
Faraone served as an associate pastor at Church of St. Denis i…