Priest Stan Hogan kept 1,500 child porn images in college bedroom, Adelaide court told (ABC)

View Comments

A court has been told a priest had more than 1,500 child pornography images in his bedroom at an Adelaide college.

Jesuit priest Stanislaus Hogan, who used to live and teach at St Ignatius' College at Athelstone in Adelaide's eastern suburbs, admitted to charges of accessing child pornography and an aggravated count of possessing child pornography when he last faced the court in March.

The District Court now has heard the images were found last August, along with magazines and videos legally bought in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when Federal Police searched Hogan's private quarters at St Ignatius' College after being tipped off about an internet order for child pornography.

The lawyer for Hogan, 69, told the court more than 1,500 images were downloaded over two months but the magazines had not been looked at for years and Hogan did not own a video player.

The prosecutor said some of the images were on a computer, but others had been printed using school resources.

He said most were of boys in their early to mid teens.

The defence has argued Hogan should get a suspended jail sentence as his good reputation and distinguished career have been "indelibly tarnished".

But the prosecution says that would be "manifestly inadequate".

The court has been told Hogan is to be released from vows soon.

The Jesuits previously issued a statement saying Hogan acted alone and had had no contact with the college since the time he was arrested.

Hogan will be sentenced later.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/24349305/priest-stan-hogan-kept-1-500-child-porn-images-in-college-bedroom-adelaide-court-told/