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Fairbanks News-Miner
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FAIRBANKS—A former Fairbanks parish priest will serve at least 10 years in federal prison for a child pornography-related offense under a signed plea agreement filed Wednesday.
Under the agreement, Clint Landry, 58, pleaded guilty to one count of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor.
Landry was a priest at Sacred Heart Cathedral, Fairbanks’ largest Catholic congregation, until May. In May, a diocese custodian at Landry’s church-provided home saw an open email on Landry’s computer with a sexually explicit photo of a teenage girl, according to a description of the case against him in the plea agreement.
The FBI searched Landry’s computer after the custodian contacted her supervisor. Investigators found other child pornography on his computer and a chat transcript from a few days before in which Landry paid $55 in anticipation of seeing a video from a Yahoo account that claimed to be a 16-year-old boy in the Philippines. During the summer of 2013 he contacted seven Yahoo accounts for the purpose of seeing child pornography, according to the plea agreement.
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