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	Pastor Jailed for Making Rape Video Canwest News Service December 9, 2009 http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2321339 VANCOUVER -- A British Columbia pastor has been sentenced to 15 months in jail after he admitted making an explicit video that simulated the rape of a young teenager -- the latest incident involving a Canadian member of the clergy and child pornography. Larry Robert Collins, 45, a pastor from the Church of Nazarene in Surrey, B.C., was nabbed following an investigation that began back in June 2008. Investigators found a video showing a teenage victim in sexually explicit scenes, interspersed with photographs of the girl covered in writing that encouraged her "rape," said Const. Rosiane Racine of the B.C. Integrated Child Exploitation Unit. After the evidence trail led to Collins, the pastor confessed to making the video and distributing it on the Internet. He also created fake online accounts pretending to be the victim and encouraged people to go to a website where the explicit video was available. Collins even "posted the victim's name and hometown, which jeopardized the child's safety," said Racine. Collins was also originally charged with distributing child pornography, but that count was stayed by the Crown. He was convicted of possession of child pornography. Const. Racine said the judge noted the "heinous nature" of the crime in his sentencing. "Despite being shaken up by the incident, the teenage girl is safe and sound with her family," Const. Racine said. This was just the latest incident involving a member of the clergy in Canada and child pornography. An Anglican priest in Newfoundland was arrested this week and is now facing child-pornography charges, according to a St. John's radio station. VOCM reported that Rev. Robin Barrett, 52, of Conception Bay South, N.L., was arrested after an investigation was launched prompted by the Toronto Police Service-Child Exploitation Section. Later this month, former Nova Scotia bishop Raymond Lahey is to appear in court to face charges of possessing and importing child pornography. The 69-year-old was arrested in September after a search of his laptop at an Ottawa airport allegedly discovered graphic images. Lahey, who until shortly before his arrest had been the bishop of Antigonish, oversaw a $15-million legal settlement to victims of priest sexual abuse in his diocese. That was before announcing that he was stepping down for "personal reasons." And a former Windsor, Ont., Catholic priest has been charged in Canada with molesting teenage boys at the mission he founded in Haiti. John Duarte, 43, is charged with nine counts of sexual exploitation involving boys aged 12 to 17. The alleged incidents are said to have occurred in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince and the tiny fishing village of Labadie. Hearts Together for Haiti, a Windsor-based charity Duarte founded, operated schools, a health clinic and a sponsorship program for impoverished families. Duarte was arrested Oct. 20 in the Dominican Republic where he had been living. Canadian authorities retrieved him Oct. 26. Duarte's next court date is scheduled for Dec. 8. He will appear by video from the Windsor Jail.
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