PITTSBURGH (PA)
WPXI
PITTSBURGH —
A suspended Churchill priest will serve more than eight years in prison for possessing and receiving thousands of images of child pornography on his church computer.
A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced the Rev. Bartley Sorensen to 97 months behind bars.
The judge also sentenced Sorensen to five years supervised release. He was also ordered to pay a $25,000 fine.
Sorensen’s attorney, Patrick Thomassey, had contended that Sorensen obtained the images for himself and never molested a child. Thomassey argued in court filings that the mandatory five-year sentence he faces is sufficient.
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