On May 25, 8:20 am, Mitchell Holman <
nomailcomcast.net> wrote:
> Priest Pleads Guilty to Child Exploitation Charges
> May 24 2012
>
> PITTSBURGH—A Roman Catholic priest pleaded guilty in
> federal court to charges of violating federal child
> sexual exploitation laws, United States Attorney
> David J Hickton announced today.
>
> Bartley Sorensen, 63, pleaded guilty before United
> States District Judge Alan N Bloch to receiving and
> possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in
> sexually explicit conduct.
>
> In connection with the guilty plea, the court was
> advised that Sorensen, a priest at St. John Fisher
> Church in Churchill, received and possessed many
> images of minors being sexually abused between
> June 2011 and December 9, 2011.
>
> “This case is particularly disturbing because it
> involves a priest, a man in a position of great trust,
> viewing horrific and degrading images of children,”
> United States Attorney Hickton said. "Consumers of
> these violent sexual images fuel the production of
> more images, and the demand for increasingly extreme
> content. This is not a ‘victimless’ crime."
>
>
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He deserves to be judged and convicted properly. In fact, because of
his
position of trust, they hold him at a higher standard. There simply
is
no excuse.