ALASKA
KTUU
Chris Klint, Senior Digital Producer, cklint@ktuu.com
U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler’s office previously said little about the charges against 58-year-old Clint Landry, who had served as the parish priest at the Sacred Heart Cathedral since June 2011. That silence ended Monday, however, in a statement announcing Landry’s sentencing after he pleaded guilty to attempted enticement of a minor.
According to Loeffler’s office, Landry used at least eight different Yahoo accounts to negotiate Filipino sex shows involving children between June 2013 and May 2014. He paid for the child porn using Western Union money transfers.
“A search of the computer found multiple sexually-explicit Instant Messages (IM) between the defendant and others believed to be located in the Philippines,” prosecutors wrote. “In many of these IMs, the defendant is negotiating with a Filipino co-conspirator about viewing sexually explicit conduct involving minors through webcams and Skype communications.”
Prosecutors provided numerous examples of transactions, some with explicit descriptions of the content Landry had bargained for.
“On June 13, 2013, the defendant communicated with a co-conspirator, asking ‘[c]an you show me young boys[?]’” prosecutors wrote. “He went on to ask, ‘what handsome young boys do you have?’ When told that the available ‘young boy’ was 10 years old, the defendant’s response was ‘ok,’ and he inquired ‘how much.’ The defendant then attempted to offer 1600 Philippine pesos for online access to the child, or approximately $35.”
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