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	Monk Was Arrested in Sex Sting Here By John Andrew Prime Shreveport Times February 26, 2008 http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080226/NEWS03/802260307/1062/NEWS03 One of three men arrested last week at a local adult video store was a Benedictine monk from south Louisiana, The Times has learned. Michael Kavanagh, 62, who gave Shreveport police an address on River Road in "Lake Benedict" when he was booked on an obscenity charge late Wednesday, is Father Aelred Kavanagh, then a member of the faculty at St. Joseph's Abbey and Seminary in St. Tammany Parish. The Benedictine abbey and the seminary are on River Road near Covington. "Father Aelred Kavanaugh, O.S.B., whose lay name is Michael Kavanaugh, has resigned from his position on the faculty of Saint Joseph Seminary College," abbey Director of Development Vanessa Crouere told The Times in response to e-mail and phone queries. When booked into Caddo Correctional Center early Thursday, the street numeric address he provided matches the address of the abbey and seminary. A check of online sex offender and booking listings nationally and in St. Tammany Parish showed no entries for Michael or Aelred Kavanagh. Until Monday morning, Kavanagh was listed on the abbey and seminary Web site as its Monsignor Henry Bezou Professor and his academic credentials showed degrees from Saint Joseph Seminary, St. Meinrad College in Indiana, Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans and the Pontifical Biblical Institute and the Pontifical Gregorian University, both in Rome. His name and position have since been removed from the Web site. Kavanagh was arrested by Shreveport vice unit officers in the same sweep that netted two other men, all of whom reportedly were masturbating separately at showings in two theaters at Capri Video, a store in the 2000 block of Nelson Street in the Agurs business district, Shreveport police spokeswoman Kacee Hargrave said. The three men each posted $500 bond and no longer are at CCC.
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