N.Va. Priest Charged in Child Porn Probe (washingtonpost.com)
Leesburg, Virginia --
A longtime Catholic priest in Leesburg and other Northern Virginia communities has been indicted by a Loudoun County grand jury on a charge of possession of child pornography, which resulted from a worldwide crackdown, officials said yesterday.
The Rev. Robert C. Brooks, 72, who led St. John the Apostle in Leesburg for 14 years, registered with a child pornography Web site in 2003, attracting the attention of federal investigators, authorities said. Brooks stepped down in October after Loudoun officials told the Diocese of Arlington that they intended to charge him, authorities said.
Brooks was indicted Monday and released on bond yesterday. He joined the diocese in 1974, and before going to Leesburg, he was pastor of churches in Falls Church, Annandale, Vienna and Alexandria.
Loudoun Commonwealth's Attorney James E. Plowman, whose office is prosecuting the case, would not say whether Brooks downloaded or purchased illegal images. A spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal agency overseeing the international investigation, said all suspects were identified from credit cards used to purchase subscriptions to child pornography Web sites from a company based in Belarus.
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A longtime Catholic priest in Leesburg and other Northern Virginia communities has been indicted by a Loudoun County grand jury on a charge of possession of child pornography, which resulted from a worldwide crackdown, officials said yesterday.
The Rev. Robert C. Brooks, 72, who led St. John the Apostle in Leesburg for 14 years, registered with a child pornography Web site in 2003, attracting the attention of federal investigators, authorities said. Brooks stepped down in October after Loudoun officials told the Diocese of Arlington that they intended to charge him, authorities said.
Brooks was indicted Monday and released on bond yesterday. He joined the diocese in 1974, and before going to Leesburg, he was pastor of churches in Falls Church, Annandale, Vienna and Alexandria.
Loudoun Commonwealth's Attorney James E. Plowman, whose office is prosecuting the case, would not say whether Brooks downloaded or purchased illegal images. A spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal agency overseeing the international investigation, said all suspects were identified from credit cards used to purchase subscriptions to child pornography Web sites from a company based in Belarus.
Read the article at washingtonpost.com dated February 16, 2005
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