AUSTRALIA
9 News
By Christine Flatley
A former Catholic priest has asked a court for forgiveness after being sentenced for child pornography charges, a court has been told.
Neil Joseph Byrne, 61, pleaded guilty in the Brisbane District Court on Wednesday to eight counts of making and one of possessing child exploitation material.
He was sentenced to a nine-month wholly suspended sentence.
The offences occurred between 2005 and 2011 while he was a priest at The Gap Parish at St John’s Wood, in Brisbane’s inner west.
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