ALASKA
Daily Reporter
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First Posted: March 14, 2015
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — A former Fairbanks priest will serve at least 10 years in federal prison on a child pornography offense under a plea agreement.
Clint Landry pleaded guilty to one count of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor in a signed agreement filed Wednesday, The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (http://bit.ly/1ChbWBI) reported.
Landry was a priest at Sacred Heart Cathedral until May. That’s when the plea agreement said 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.
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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