LEESBURG (VA)
WVEC
12/12/2005
By MATTHEW BARAKAT / Associated Press
A Catholic priest convicted earlier this year on a child pornography charge received no jail time Monday after the prosecutor — who was a parishoner at the priest's former church — failed to seek a jail term.
Robert Brooks, 73, who had been a priest of St. John the Apostle in Leesburg, pleaded no contest in October to a count of attempting to possess child pornography.
Authorities said they searched his computer and found more than 100 images of child pornography; prosecutors said they allowed Brooks to plead guilty to a lesser charge because they could not prove the pornographic images actually depicted minors.