| Catholic Priest Daniel Moreau Facing Child-Porn Charges Released on Bail in Sorel-Tracy
By Presse Canadienne
Montreal Gazette
March 12, 2013
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Catholic+priest+Daniel+Moreau+facing+child+porn+charges+released/8083476/story.html
MONTREAL — Father Daniel Moreau was released on bail — with conditions — Monday afternoon by a judge in Sorel-Tracy.
Charged with seven counts of production, possession and distribution of child pornography, the Roman Catholic priest and long-time scouting leader had been jailed since his arrest Thursday morning at his living quarters at Saint-Gabriel-Lalement church, about 100 kilometres northeast of Montreal.
Moreau, 55, was handcuffed and taken away by the Sûreté du Québec after officers equipped with a search warrant began to examine his computer equipment, at the request of a police force from outside Quebec.
On Friday morning, the diocese of St-Hyacinthe removed him from all duties at the parishes of Ste-Anne, St-Joseph and St-Pierre.
A biography of Moreau, accessed before it was excised Friday from a church website, said he was also a national trainer for the Adventurers Association of Baden-Powell, a splinter scouting group with more than 1,000 members in Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick.
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