CONNECTICUT
The Hartford Courant
By DAVID OWENS, dowens@courant.com
The Hartford Courant
10:03 a.m. EDT, July 3, 2012
WATERFORD—
A former priest at St. Paul Parish in Waterford has been charged by state police with first-degree possession of child pornography.
The Rev. Dennis Carey, 65, turned himself in to state troopers Tuesday and is to be arraigned in Superior Court in New London. His bail was $100,000.
Norwich Carey on Friday submitted his resignation as pastor of St. Paul to the Diocese of Norwich and it was immediately accepted.
State police said their investigation began after Los Angeles police contacted them about a child pornography investigation with a possible suspect in Connecticut. On June 28 state police seized computers and other evidence from the St. Paul parish rectory in Waterford. Review of those computers led to the warrant for Carey’s arrest.
America Online had submitted a report to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about the possibility that child pornography had been transmitted via AOL linked to the rectory.
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