ALASKA
Alaska Dispatch News
Jerzy Shedlock
March 12, 2015
Clint Landry, formerly a priest with the Catholic Diocese of Fairbanks, pleaded guilty to a single count of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor for messaging contacts in the Philippines and wiring cash for child pornography, according to a federal plea agreement.
According to Ronnie Rosenberg, the diocese’s human resources and legal coordinator, Landry entered his plea Thursday morning at the federal courthouse in Fairbanks.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Kyle Reardon did not immediately return a call for comment Thursday.
Landry, 58, was placed on administrative leave and suspended from his ministerial duties on May 23, 2014, after “revelations of Internet computer misconduct,” the diocese said in a release. Landry served as the parish priest for Fairbanks’ largest Catholic congregation, Sacred Heart Cathedral.
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