AUSTRALIA
Australian Teacher Magazine
PERTH, Oct 16 – A former school chaplain on trial for child pornography offences has told a court he believes someone set him up but denied he was trying to implicate three men connected to the school.
Matthew David O’Meara, 42, is on trial in the WA District Court on four child pornography charges related to explicit images and video files on two thumb drives.
The married father of two had been working as a chaplain at Perth College for nearly eight months in 2010 before he was charged and fired from the school.
The court has heard that one thumb drive was found by a teacher on her desk in August 2010 and the other was seized by police from O’Meara’s trouser pocket during a search of his office.
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