AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Isabel Dayman
An Adelaide Jesuit priest and teacher found with more than 1,500 pornographic images of boys will be released from jail, after a court overturned his original sentence.
Stanislaus Hogan was sentenced to two-and-half years’ jail with a non-parole period of 10 months in March this year, after books, magazines and videos of young and teenage boys were found in his private quarters at Saint Ignatius’ College in 2013.
The Court of Criminal Appeal today re-sentenced Hogan to an 18-month good behaviour bond after suspending a jail term of one year, three months and three weeks.
The new sentence included a six-month non-parole period, but it was suspended.
The Court of Appeal found while the original sentence was not excessive, the sentencing judge should have applied a full 30 per cent guilty plea discount and should have suspended the sentence.
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