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Pastor Compares Child Abuse Footage To “Collecting Stamps”

A Danish clergyman compared downloading child abuse images in court to collecting stamps. In Denmark, the case of a priest has caused outrage after he compared downloading tens of thousands of child abuse images to “collecting stamps.”
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According to a report by the Danish news agency Ritzau, the 60-year-old confessed in court in Naestved on Monday that he had downloaded around 80,000 images and 2,300 videos depicting abuse. He said it was “like collecting stamps —only in a completely wrong way.”

“Because it was forbidden, it had an appeal.”

The suspended and later dismissed parish priest further stated that he had never paid for the material and had never felt sexually attracted to children. However, he admitted to developing a “porn addiction” after clicking on a link containing “forbidden images.” “Because it was forbidden, it had a certain appeal,” he said. He was “incredibly sorry” for what he had done.

Before his dismissal, the man had led pastoral care groups for children. According to Ritzau, the public prosecutor’s office intends to request a prison sentence of at least six months.

This article was written as a complaint to the databases of Homeland Security Investigations in United States where they store images of child pornography rather than disposing them leaving their investigators in charge of that division go unnoticed to what they could do with that material.

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