{"id":3130,"date":"2011-05-05T18:00:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T22:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=3130"},"modified":"2011-05-05T17:37:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T21:37:41","slug":"canadian-bishop-pleads-guilty-to-child-pornography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/05\/canadian-bishop-pleads-guilty-to-child-pornography","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Bishop Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By RON CSILLAG<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>c. 2011 Religion News Service<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>TORONTO (RNS) A former Roman Catholic bishop in Nova Scotia has pleaded guilty to trying to import child pornography after he was arrested in 2009 returning from a trip to Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing in an Ottawa court on Wednesday (May 4), Raymond Lahey, 70, pleaded guilty to a single charge of &#8220;possession (of child pornography) for the purposes of importation.&#8221; A second charge of possession is expected to be withdrawn as part of the plea deal. <\/p>\n<p>Lahey is due to return to court on May 26 to set a sentencing date.<\/p>\n<p>Lahey was arrested in September, 2009 at Ottawa&#8217;s airport after a trip to Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. A check of his laptop computer and other devices revealed more than 500 images of child pornography involving boys.<\/p>\n<p>In an agreed statement of facts before the court, the images were categorized as &#8220;mastery and slavery,&#8221; humiliation of young boys, torture of young boys, sex acts between boys, and degradation of young boys.<\/p>\n<p>Lahey served for six years as bishop of the diocese in Antigonish, Nova Scotia and resigned the day after he was charged.<\/p>\n<p>A month before his arrest, Lahey had brokered a $15 million settlement for victims of sexual abuse by priests of the diocese of Antigonish dating back to 1950. He was not directly implicated in the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Recognizing the confusion and anger that this case has engendered among many of the faithful, we underscore our pastoral concern for those who have experienced great pain as a result of these events,&#8221; said a statement from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By RON CSILLAG c. 2011 Religion News Service TORONTO (RNS) A former Roman Catholic bishop in Nova Scotia has pleaded guilty to trying to import child pornography after he was arrested in 2009 returning from a trip to Thailand. 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