AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Loukas Founten
A former Adelaide Jesuit priest and teacher jailed for child pornography offences has won permission to appeal against his sentence.
Stanislaus Hogan was found with more than 1,500 pornographic images in his private quarters at St Ignatius College in August 2013.
The 70-year-old had collected the books, videos and magazines showing boys aged between three and 16 over a number of years.
He argued he had used some of the material to help understand paedophiles as well as himself.
The Supreme Court was today told the sentencing judge did not give enough weight to Hogan’s early guilty plea, his rehabilitation efforts and low risk of reoffending, when he jailed him for two-and-a-half years.
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