Catholic Priest Arrested In Spain For Possession Of Child Pornography: "The Spanish police have arrested a Catholic priest east of the country after finding about 21,000 computer files of child pornography in the computers at his church, local news reports quoting officials said Friday.
Spanish media reports said the priest, who has not been named, was released on bail by a court in in the eastern town of Vilafames on Friday. The judge has ordered the priest to return to the court in 15 days.
Meanwhile, the El Pais newspaper reported that the Segregate-Castellon diocese has suspended the priest and expressed willingness to clarify the facts in court.
The diocese, which controls the parish church of Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion where the files were found, said it would also offer the priest 'the necessary means for a fair defense'." Guardia Civil in Castellón arrested the parish priest of Our Lady of the Assumption of the Castellon town of Vilafamés, which the prosecutor charged with a crime of distributing child pornography.
The arrest was confirmed by the Provincial Prosecutor of Castellon, who ordered a search of his home, conducted in that parish on 10th November, when officers found more than 21,000 files of pedophile material, occupying approximately 600 gigabytes.
After his statement in Court on Friday, the Prosecutor asked that he be held without bail until trial.
However, the magistrate has agreed to provisional release with the obligation to appear every two weeks.
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