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  Grand Prairie Priest Arrested on Child Porn Charges

By Anthony Spangler
Fort Worth Star-Telegram [Dallas TX]
March 28, 2005

DALLAS -- A suspended Grand Prairie priest was indicted last week on felony charges of possessing child pornography, court records show.

Father Matthew Bagert, 36, pastor of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church on Northeast 17th Street, was arrested for having child pornography on a church computer.

The Dallas Catholic Diocese indefinitely suspended Bagert after they informed Grand Prairie police of the images.

Bagert was ordained in 1997 and has been the church's pastor since 2001, and the diocese had no previous complaints against him, church officials said.