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	Mo. Priest Charged with Possessing Child Porn Beaumont Enterprise May 19, 2011 http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Mo-priest-charged-with-possessing-child-porn-1387329.php A western Missouri priest is charged with three counts of possessing child pornography after authorities reported finding images on computers he used. Forty-five-year-old Shawn Francis Ratigan was charged Thursday in Clay County. He was arrested Wednesday at a private home for priests in Independence and held on $200,000 bail. Court records do not list a defense attorney, and there's no phone listing for Shawn Ratigan. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph says in a statement it contacted law enforcement professionals after the images were discovered. It says Ratigan has had no parish assignments since January. According to court documents, a technician found some images in December on Ratigan's private laptop and gave it to church officials. Police say more images were found this week on a computer Ratigan used at a St. Joseph church.
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