Priest to plead guilty to child abuse

ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND - Prosecutors said Wednesday that a former seminary student will plead guilty to abusing two Montgomery County, Maryland, brothers in the 1970s. <br> <br> The state&#39;s attorney&#39;s office said 59-year-old Wayland Yoder Brown is expected to enter a guilty plea to one count of child abuse and one count of battery at a November 19 hearing in Montgomery County Circuit Court. <br> <br> Brown was a student at the Washington Theological College in the District of Columbia at the time of the abuse and later became a priest in Georgia. He was arrested at his Savannah, Georgia, home in June and extradited to Maryland. <br> <br> While at the seminary, Brown was detailed temporarily to St. Rose of Lima church in Gaithersburg, Maryland, where he became close friends with the mother of the brothers, according to court documents. <br> <br> Prosecutors said Brown would spend the night at the family&#39;s home, where he allegedly abused the 13-year-old. Prosecutors said Brown also abused the boy in his dorm room, at his parent&#39;s home in Georgia and in the rectory of St. Rose of Lima over several years. <br> <br> Prosecutors said Brown also tried to abuse the boy&#39;s 12-year-old brother. <br> <br> Charges were filed against Brown after the older brother, now 41, contacted prosecutors in March to report the abuse.

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