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Anglican priest admits he wanted to sexually abuse HUNDREDS of children as young as two as he pleads guilty to child porn charges
By Adam Mccleery
An Anglican priest admitted in court to participating in online chats about his own child sex abuse fantasies. Melbourne Anglican priest and former Sunshine vicar Phillip John Murphy, 53, pleaded guilty in the Victorian County Court to transmitting child pornography, 9 News reported. Murphy would use a carriage service to engage in the online conversation about child sex abuse fantasies he had during chats he had with other men between 2016 and 2017. It was during one of these conversations that Murphy confided in another man that he had a fantasy to abuse hundreds of children. Some of them as young as two-years-old. When the man replied '...having some fun with a six-year-old boy with a slight handicap' Murphy replied said he wished he could join. He also told another man who had two young children that he was in a 'very pedo mood' and would only travel to meet if 'I know there is really young on offer'. It wasn't until after Murphy had returned from a trip to Hong Kong in 2017 that he was questioned about his illicit online activity. He told police that he had been suffering through a personal crisis which had caused him to participate in the online conversations. Murphy had also used dating app Grindr to ask several men if they had any interest in children. His barrister, Geoffrey Steward, told the court his client felt great shame and remorse for his actions and that his clean record and 'contributions to the community' until now should be weighed into the sentencing. 'He has been a man who did not merely preach from the pulpit. He has been a man who went out into the community,' he said. Murphy is on bail and will appear in court again on Friday, April 20 for sentencing.
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