LONDON (ENGLAND)
Daily Mail
Oct. 9, 2019
By Kylie Stevens
A former Catholic priest tried to import vile child pornography into the country, a court has heard.
Peter Andrew Hansen, 61, pleaded guilty to 23 child exploitation charges when he faced Central Local Court, in Sydney, on Wednesday.
Hansen, a Labor party branch president, from Cabramatta, has been behind bars since last October when he returned home from a four month teaching stint in Vietnam.
Hansen was initially charged with three offences after he was arrested at Sydney International Airport when Australian Border Force officers found child pornography on an external hard drive in his luggage.
He was later charged with an extra 22 charges, two of which have since been withdrawn.
On Wednesday, the court heard disturbing details of the child pornography material Australian Border Force officers found in Hansen’s luggage, including seven videos of boys engaged in sexual acts.
According to the police fact sheet, the videos showed boys who were ‘instructed to remove their clothing and perform sexual acts on themselves and other children’.
The fact sheet also stated a title page at the start of the video listed the names and ages of the minors aged 12-15.
Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.