MINNESOTA
Raw Story
TRAVIS GETTYS
01 NOV 2016
A Minnesota pastor admitted to taking innocent photos of children that he then turned into sexually explicit images, police said.
Investigators were tipped off Oct. 21 after Facebook and Instagram reported that the same user was suspected of trading child pornography through instant messaging with another user in Finland, reported KAAL-TV.
Facebook, which owns Instagram, identified the American user as 47-year-old William Helker, of Pine City, who served as a youth pastor at All Saints Lutheran Church in Cottage Grove.
The three photos involved girls as young as 5 years old, and investigators identified two of the children as victims of criminal sexual conduct.
Authorities said Helker traded the images from computers at both his home and church.
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