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	Online Masturbating Priest 'Knew' 13-Year-Old Girl Was Fantasy Herald Sun February 24, 2010 http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/online-masturbating-priest-knew-13-year-old-girl-was-fantasy/story-e6frf7jx-1225833848675 AUSTRALIA -- A SYDNEY priest who used a webcam to broadcast himself masturbating to a person he believed was a 13-year-old has told a court it was all part of a fantasy world. Robert MacGregor Fuller, 54, has pleaded guilty to grooming and procuring a child under the age of 16. During online chat sessions the priest, who served for some six years at All Saints church in the Sydney suburb of Liverpool, used a webcam to show himself masturbating to a police officer posing as a 13-year-old girl. Fuller told his sentencing hearing at Parramatta District Court the chat rooms were part of a fantasy world and he did not truly believe the person watching was a pre-pubescent girl. "There's not necessarily any truth in what they say. It's a fantasy, in a sense," Fuller told the court. "It's a game, it's a fantasy. "Unless you see them or meet them you don't know. It's the image they presented and I went on with it." For three weeks between July and August last year Fuller had 13 online conversations with the officer, five of which captured the priest's face. Fuller was arrested on August 13 in a car park in Parramatta where he allegedly planned to meet the teenage girl for sex. He was immediately suspended by the Archdiocese of Sydney. The sentencing hearing continues.
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