UNITED KINGDOM
Ham & High
by Tom Marshall
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Camden education chiefs have sought to reassure parents after a Catholic friar, who taught at one of the borough’s schools, admitted downloading thousands of sickening child abuse images.
Gospel Oak friar Timothy Gardner, described as a “senior figure” in Catholic education by the council, is facing jail after he pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court on Monday to 10 counts of making indecent images of children.
He was found with 5,005 pictures. Some were graded at levels four and five, the most extreme categories, which can include scenes of bondage and rape.
Gardner, 41, of St Dominic’s Priory Church, Southampton Road, taught religious education (RE) at Maria Fidelis Catholic School for six years from 2006 to 2012.
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