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	Vicar Charged over Child Porn Images ic Wales May 9 2008 http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/05/09/vicar-charged-over-child-porn-images-91466-20886810/ A WELSH vicar has been charged on 18 counts of possessing child porn images. The Reverend Richard Hart, 58, was arrested along with his wife in January at their vicarage in in Beguildy, near Knighton, Powys. Mr Hart will now appear at Brecon Magistrates' Court on May 29. His wife Julie, a 40-year-old primary school assistant, remains on police bail. Mr Hart was suspended from pastoral duties in the aftermath of the arrest, and has also been suspended from his role as chairman of governors at the local Church of Wales school in Beguildy, where his wife works. A spokeswoman for Dyfed-Powys Police said a 58-year-old man had been charged with "18 specimen charges relating to indecent images of children". Mr Hart has been priest in charge of seven parishes - Beguildy, Llangunllo, Heyope, Bleddfa, Llanbadarn Fynydd, Llananno and Llanbister - since 2001.
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