CBC News
December 19, 2011
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2011/12/19/nl-lahey-sentencing-1219.html
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| Bishop Raymond Lahey makes his way into the courthouse in Ottawa on Oct. 9, 2009, after police found child pornography images on his computer. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press) |
The sentencing hearing for former Roman Catholic Bishop Raymond Lahey is scheduled to resume Monday in Ottawa, seven months after he pleaded guilty to importing child pornography.
Police found hundreds of child pornography images on the personal computer of Lahey, who was arrested at the Ottawa airport in September 2009.
Lahey, originally from Newfoundland and Labrador, was a bishop in the western Newfoundland diocese of St. George's between 1986 and 2003 and in Antigonish, N.S., until 2009.
He resigned from the Antigonish diocese the day after he was charged.
Lahey has been in custody since pleading guilty last May to possession of child pornography for the purposes of importation to Canada.
Lahey's sentencing hearing began Aug. 4, when his defence lawyers argued the images found on Lahey's computer were less graphic than pornography collections found by police investigators in other cases.
Psychiatrists are expected to testify when the hearing continues Monday.
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