Bishop Lahey in court today; warrant alleges abundant homosexual child porn on laptop

November 04, 2009

Bishop Raymond Lahey, who resigned in September after Ottawa airport security found child pornography on his computer, will appear in court today. The Canadian Press reports:

Police say they found hundreds of files and dozens of videos on Lahey's laptop after he arrived in Ottawa on a flight from the United Kingdom, many of them showing young males engaged in sex acts. Police warrants say some images show boys as young as eight, though none of the allegations made in the search warrants have been proven in court …

One warrant said Lahey told Ottawa police he "had no time for child exploitation, no time for child pornography." He is alleged to have told one officer he is attracted to young men, aged 20 or 21, and that he had never done anything abusive to a child and would "never have any sexual interest in a person under 18."

 

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Further information:

• Nova Scotia Bishop Raymond Lahey faces hearing on child-porn charges (CP)
• Bishop Lahey to reappear in court; condoms as well as porn alleged in his rectory (CWN, 10/07/2009)