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Retired St. Louis priest admits to possessing child pornography

Null / Credit: Chodyra Mike 1/Shutterstock.St. Louis, Mo., Oct 13, 2022 / 13:47 pm (CNA).A retired Vincentian priest who ministered in St. Louis until last year pleaded guilty Wednesday to possessing thousands of images containing child pornography.Father James T. Beighlie, 72, is a priest of the Congregation of the Mission, also called the Vincentians. According to the Department of Justice, Beighlie pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of child pornography on Oct. 12.Ordained in 1979, Beighlie had served as associate pastor at St. Vincent de Paul Parish in St. Louis for approximately two years until May 2021, provincial spokesman Chris Duggan told CNA.In his Wednesday plea agreement, Beighlie admitted that on May 17, 2021, while he was working at the Congregation of the Mission in St. Louis, colleagues found compromising images of him on a church printer, the DOJ reported. As a result, the Congregation of the Mission Western Province opened an internal investigation dur. ....

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