Collection of child and gay porn videos discovered in a home of a paedophile priest destroyed

AUSTRALIA
The Daily Telegraph

NEIL KEENE, The Daily Telegraph
August 4, 2016

PRIESTS within the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle conspired to burn a collection of child and gay porn videos owned by a paedophile priest.

A Royal Commission heard this morning that serial paedophile Father Peter Rushton recruited the help of another priest within the diocese to dispose of “hundreds” of pornographic videos stored in his home.

Former Archdeacon Colvin Ford told the commission that he was told the videos were burnt in the backyard of a rectory.

“He needed to use a 44-gallon drum in order to get rid of them,” Mr Ford said.

“He also told me that the covers of some of the videos depicted men and boys which I took to mean primary school age children.”

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