BOISE (ID)
KIVITV
February 5, 2018
By Karen Lehr
BOISE – Former Boise priest W. Thomas Faucher appeared in Ada County Court via video conference Monday evening, facing a long list of felony charges for child sex-related crimes.
Faucher is charged with 10 felony counts of Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, and two additional felonies for knowingly distributing by any means materials involving sexually exploitive material of a child. Faucher is also charged with possession of a controlled substance.
In court Monday, the state argued investigators found hundreds of images of child pornography on Faucher’s computer, some of which he sent to another individual.
While investigators searched his home they reportedly found an open electronic chat with another individual that “appeared to have been going on for quite some time”. In that conversation, prosecuting attorneys say Faucher expressed his desire for sexual relations with children and the desire to physically harm children.
The hundreds of alleged pornographic images contain children as young as infants and toddlers “being subjected to different acts of abuse and torture”.
Investigators also reportedly found marijuana, LSD and ecstasy/MDMA in Faucher’s home.
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