PHILADELPHIA — The Vatican will determine whether to defrock a priest accused of fathering a child with a high school graduate, a relationship that became public after the girl's parents captured the couple on a video camera secretly set up in the parents' basement.

Meanwhile, the Berks County district attorney said Tuesday his office won't press charges against the Rev. Luis A. Bonilla Margarito because a police investigation determined that the relationship started when the girl was 18.

Over the weekend, the church began putting together paperwork for the process known as "removal from the clerical state," popularly known as defrocking, said Matt Kerr, a spokesman for the Diocese of Allentown. The information will be sent to the Vatican for a decision. A timetable was not known.

Bonilla, 41, is not on assignment and has not functioned as a priest since November, when the diocese found out about the relationship, Kerr said.

Bonilla and the teen are now evidently living with each other, and she has given birth to a girl.

He was removed from his dual posts as chaplain and pastor of St. Joseph Church in Reading after the girl's parents took the tape to the diocese.