International Business Times, August 9, 2011
A Kansas City-area Catholic priest was charged on Tuesday with several federal counts of producing and possessing child pornography, including allegations that he took explicit photos of a 2-year-old and tried to take some of a 12-year-old girl on Easter Sunday.
A federal grand jury in Missouri indicted Shawn Ratigan, 45, on 13 counts, with six counts of production of child pornography, two counts of possession of child pornography and five counts of attempted production of child pornography, reports said.
The federal indictment charges Ratigan of taking or attempting to take explicit photos of at least five young girls he had contacted with from 2005 until April 2011.
The indictment alleged that some of the photographs, including those of a two-year-old, were taken inside the choir loft of the church in Easton, Missouri where he worked. One of the counts accused him of taking explicit photos of a 12-year-old girl, whom he is alleged to have taken similar photos of, when she was 6, Reuters reported.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/195298/20110809/missouri-priest-federal-child-pornography-charges-indicted.htm
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