CANADA
The Globe and Mail
A Montreal deacon is being accused of producing and distributing child pornography a day after police say they seized 2,000 images from his home.
William Kokesch, 65, was charged Saturday via video link at the Montreal courthouse. Investigators say they searched his home and arrested him a day earlier.
Montreal police Const. Dany Richer said Mr. Kokesch will remain in jail until Monday when he’s scheduled to again appear in court to face the allegations against him.
Mr. Kokesch was a deacon for a church in Beaconsfield, a suburb on Montreal’s West Island.
Mr. Kokesch was a communications director for the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. He helped co-ordinate World Youth Day conferences in Toronto, Rome and Paris, according to the organization’s website.
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