October 27, 2005

Priest jailed on pornography charges

NORTHERN IRELAND
U.TV

A Catholic priest who turned to internet pornography as a way of dealing with the stress of his job has been jailed for a year.

Forty five year-old John McCallum from the Ballymena Road in Antrim, was the on-call chaplin at the main Belfast hospitals on the day of the Omagh bomb and administered to the injured.

He began accessing adult pornography as a way of escaping the pressures of the job but later subscribed to child pornography sites.

Jailing him at Newtownards Court Judge Peter Gibson said a number of the images were utterly filthy.

Posted by kshaw at October 27, 2005 09:50 AM