AUSTRALIA
9 News
Apr 16, 2018
A “pervert” Anglican priest who boasted online about his child sex abuse fantasies could avoid jail if a judge decides the man’s community work outweighs his virtual crime.
Former Sunshine vicar Philip John Murphy, 53, on Monday pleaded guilty to transmitting child pornography using a carriage service over numerous sexually explicit online conversations he had with men in 2016 and 2017.
Under the username “Pervert”, Murphy spent several months chatting to online pedophiles about child sex abuse fantasies involving young boys before police seized his computer in February 2017.
Murphy told one man that he wanted to sexually abuse hundreds of children as young as two years old, prosecutor Jessica Mackay told the Victorian County Court.
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