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STEVE RICE SUNDAY MAIL (SA) JULY 05, 2014
A CATHOLIC school priest caught with more than 1500 child pornography images will receive financial support so he is not made homeless, despite quitting the ministry.
John Hogan will be paid accommodation and cost-of-living expenses regardless of whether he is jailed, the Jesuit Provincial Society has confirmed.
Hogan, 69, has pleaded guilty to one count of using a carriage service to access child pornography and one aggravated count of possessing child pornography.
The District Court has heardpolice seized 1555 images and videos of children and teenagers aged between three and 16 years old in his bedroom at Saint Ignatius College in 2012.
In a letter to parents and guardians of students at the Athelstone college, Father Stephen Curtin of the Jesuit Provincial Society said Hogan had asked to be released from his priestly ministry.
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