Priest Philip Murphy Spared Jail after Court Hears of Skype Chats about Child Abuse Fantasies

By Graham Bowley And Jon Hurdle
New York Times
April 18, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/arts/television/bill-cosby-sexual-assault-trial.html?mtrref=www.bishop-accountability.org&gwh=F9006B162527C706015BAD23E01DC1F5&gwt=pay

An Anglican priest who was caught having online chats about raping boys as young as two, and who once said he wanted to watch a man sexually abuse his own son while in a "pedo mood", has avoided jail.

Melbourne priest Philip Murphy, 54, pleaded guilty to using a carriage service to transmit child pornography over a series of explicit discussions he engaged in over Skype between December 2016 and February 2017.

Murphy, who worked in Sunshine in Melbourne's west, told police he used his position as a priest to gain the trust of the men he was chatting to online, sending them photos of his clerical collar.

Under the name 'pervert', he used the gay dating app Grindr to find other men who wanted to chat about sexually abusing children.