PENNSYLVANIA
Philly.com
Joe Mandak, Associated Press
Posted: Thursday, January 3, 2013
PITTSBURGH – A suspended Catholic priest expressed remorse to everyone but the young boys depicted in pornography Wednesday before he was sentenced to more than eight years in prison for collecting more than 5,000 images of child porn on his computer, in books and on compact discs.
The sentence that the Rev. Bartley Sorensen, 63, received was more than the five-year mandatory minimum sentence he sought but less than the 10-year maximum he faced.
“I served the diocese for 35 years. Along the way I betrayed that priesthood, I betrayed the bishop and the other priests in the diocese,” Sorensen told the judge who sentenced him before also apologizing for shaming his friends, family members, and former parishioners.
But Senior U.S. District Judge Alan Bloch addressed those who did not get an apology when he rejected the priest’s request for leniency and said, “Viewing child pornography is not a victimless crime.”
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