Vatican court sentences ex-envoy to 5 years on charges of possessing, distributing of child porn

Source: The Washington Post




Vatican court sentences ex-envoy to 5 years on charges of possessing, distributing of child pornography

By Chico Harlan
June 23 at 7:58 AM

BREAKING NEWS: The Vatican court sentenced former Holy See diplomat Carlo Capella to five years of imprisonment on charges of possessing and distributing of child pornography.

VATICAN CITY — On the first day of his criminal trial inside the walls of this city-state, a longtime Holy See priest-diplomat said Friday that he had viewed and shared child pornography while stationed in Washington, D.C., in an activity he described as “compulsive.”

Monsignor Carlo Capella said that while struggling two years ago with his new posting in Washington, he would send and receive images in one-on-one chats on Tumblr, a blogging site. Capella said the chats were short but “vulgar.”

“In retrospect,” Capella said, “I can see how repugnant they were.”

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