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	Additional Charges against Salinas Priest Contra Costa Times April 23, 2009 http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_12211122?nclick_check=1 Prosecutors have charged the Rev. Antonio Cortes with two additional felony charges of possessing child pornography that depicts minors engaged in sexual activity. Salinas police said the videos were on a laptop computer seized from Cortes' home at St. Mary of the Nativity Catholic Church, where the priest served as pastor. Cortes, 41, was charged Monday with a felony count alleging he engaged in sodomy with a 16-year-old boy. He is also charged with 12 misdemeanor counts of child molestation, furnishing alcohol to a minor, child cruelty and performing an immoral act before a minor. Prosecutor Rolando Mazariegos declined to say how many images were found, but said there "numerous" and that the forensic electronic investigation was ongoing. Under a 2008 state Supreme Court ruling, however, he is limited to filing one possession charge for each location, whether a structure or a computer hard drive, in which pornography is found.
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