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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"Fredric L. Rice DeRothschilde, Esq." |
| Date: |
28 Sep 2005 10:09:06 PM |
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Mass. priest pleads guilty to child pornography |
Mass. priest pleads guilty to child pornography
Tue Sep 27, 4:13 PM ET
BOSTON (Reuters) - A Massachusetts priest has pleaded guilty to
downloading 650 images of child pornography on a computer and
masquerading as a woman over the Internet to trick a teen-age boy into
performing a sex act.
Rev. Stephen A. Fernandes, 55, also admitted possessing 114 computer
videos of children engaged in sex acts during a court hearing on
Monday in New Bedford, the state prosecutors' office said on Tuesday.
Bristol District Attorney Paul Walsh said Fernandes used an instant
messaging service to pretend he was a 19-year-old woman in a teen-age
chat room and trick a 16-year-old boy to film himself performing a sex
act and e-mail him the video.
The pornography was discovered after Fernandes sent his computer to a
repair shop, Walsh said.
Fernandes, pastor of a New Bedford church, has yet to be sentenced,
but Walsh said he expected a lighter punishment than the 3-year state
jail sentence sought by prosecutors because of the priest's past
community service.
The case follows a scandal involving pedophile priests that erupted in
Massachusetts in 2002. U.S. bishops were found to have moved priests
known to have abused minors to new parishes instead of defrocking them
or reporting them to authorities.
The Boston Archdiocese, squeezed by the cost of settlements with
nearly 1,000 sex-abuse victims, has shut more than 60 churches since
the scandal surfaced.
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