I can think of one reaction to this priest.
Stephen Webster, a former seminarian, stalked from age 18:
He would say, “Pray for me,” but then he would text me when he was doing it, how he was doing it and when he was done. It was twisted.
As a priest, you represent the Catholic Church. You represent Christ. You hear confessions. And then you’re sexting over Facebook. It’s a disgrace.
In 2011, the response of the diocese was a bit timid. The priest told his young friends he was “teaching sex education to middle school-age children.”
He would say how physically mature they were for their ages and how some even had facial hair. It raised alarm bells.
That would be alarming to me. Good that the sexting sting worked to get a predator out of ministry. New Jersey chanceries have had a tough time as of late dealing with stalkers. Newark might have provided some impetus.