AUSTRALIA
Broken Rites
By a Broken Rites researcher (article posted 6 March 2014)
A senior priest at a prominent Australian Catholic school has admitted accessing and possessing child pornography.
Father Stanislaus John Hogan, 69, who has long been associated with Saint Ignatius College in Adelaide (plus prominent Catholic schools in Sydney and Melbourne), appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on 6 March 2014.
He pleaded guilty to one count of using a carriage service to access child pornography and one aggravated count of possessing child pornography.
The offences happened at Athelstone (the Adelaide suburb where the St Ignatius College is located) between April 2012 and August 2013.
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