MICHIGAN
The Times-Herald
Written by
Ed White
Associated Press
DETROIT — An inactive Roman Catholic priest in the Detroit area has been sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison for possessing and distributing child pornography.
Federal Judge Victoria Roberts says the public needs to be protected from Timothy Murray, although the punishment Thursday was below the 22-year sentence sought by prosecutors.
Agents in 2012 found child pornography on seven computers at Murray’s Novi home.
He was removed from a Livonia parish in 2004 after authorities learned that he had molested an altar boy in the 1980s. Murray was never charged because the statute of limitations had expired.
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