AUSTRALIA
Sky News
Monday, 28 July 2014
A Catholic priest who possessed child pornography bought some material to understand the concept of paedophilia, an Adelaide court has been told.
Sophie David, for Father Stanislaus Hogan, also said two of the five videos seized from her client were taped from SBS educative TV programs, but were classified by authorities as being in the most serious child pornography category.
Hogan, 69, has pleaded guilty to an aggravated count of possessing child pornography and a count of using a carriage service to access child pornography at Athelstone between April 20 and June 10 2012.
The 1555 images were found in his bedroom at St Ignatius’ College, where police also located magazines and videos which Ms David said were bought legally in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The ages of the children ranged between three and 16 years.
More than 70 per cent of the images were in the least serious category involving no sexual activity, but five images and two videos were in category five, the most serious.
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