Former Fairbanks priest expected to get 10 years in prison for child pornography offense

Daily Reporter
March 14, 2015

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FAIRBANKS, Alaska — A former Fairbanks priest will serve at least 10 years in federal prison on a child pornography offense under a plea agreement.

Clint Landry pleaded guilty to one count of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor in a signed agreement filed Wednesday, The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (http://bit.ly/1ChbWBI) reported.

Landry was a priest at Sacred Heart Cathedral until May. That's when the plea agreement said a diocese custodian at Landry's church-provided home saw an open email on Landry's computer with a sexually explicit photo of a teenage girl.

The FBI searched Landry's computer after the custodian contacted her supervisor.

Investigators found other child pornography on his computer and a chat transcript from a few days before in which Landry paid $55 in anticipation of seeing a video from a Yahoo account that claimed to be a 16-year-old boy in the Philippines. During the summer of 2013, he contacted seven Yahoo accounts for the purpose of seeing child pornography, according to the plea agreement.

The longtime New Orleans schoolteacher first came to Fairbanks in 2009 and was ordained in 2011.

He's scheduled to be sentenced in June. The expected sentencing range is 12 1/2 to 15 years, according to the plea agreement.

Sacred Heart is the largest Fairbanks Catholic congregation. About 1,000 people attend Sunday services.