Posted on 12/21/2018 7:15:00 AM PST by Perseverando
The Rev. W. Thomas Faucher, a longtime priest in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Boise who pleaded guilty to five felony crimes, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison without parole and will be required to register as a sex offender.
Faucher, 73, was accused of amassing thousands of child porn images and videos on his home computer — and pleaded guilty in September to sharing some of those images online. He apologized in the courtroom ahead of his sentencing at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise on Thursday.
“This is the crime that has the potential for both immediate and long-lasting consequences,” 4th District Court Judge Jason Scott said. “... I think there is a legitimate risk to the community.”
“I am deeply sorry that I was and have been connected to that in any way,” Faucher told the judge in a statement that lasted about 17 minutes. Faucher said he was deeply struck by the victim impact statements and that he knows child pornography is not a victimless crime.
“I was one really sick puppy. I screwed up big time ... I feel so much remorse and anger,” Faucher said at his sentencing.
“There are many people who will benefit if I am no longer in jail,” Faucher said, explaining that he’d like to help others. “There are no people who will benefit if I am in jail or in prison.”
A thinner and more frail-looking Faucher was wheeled into the courtroom in his Ada County jail uniform just before 9:30 a.m. At least 30 people, including some members of the Diocese of Boise, plus local media were packed into the windowless fifth-floor courtroom — some watching cried while others left the room as a local detective described in graphic detail the images and child pornography found
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“There are many people who will benefit if I am no longer in jail,” Faucher said, explaining that he’d like to help others. “There are no people who will benefit if I am in jail or in prison.”
(Plus he want be able to have further access to child porn, alcohol and drugs. This man is EVIL beyond description.)
He says there are no people in jail to minister to.
Really?
He does need to be defrocked.
If you are truly remorseful and repentant, then God can use you IN prison. Repent. Seek reconciliation with the Lord and spread His message where it is needed most.
But then, I really don't expect that from this "priest".
Thanks to the our ridiculous “justice” system, he’ll be out on parole in less than 5 years.
"Faucher has lost 47 pounds since he's been in jail and has a life expectancy of about 5 more years, the defense says. He also has brain damage and alcohol-induced dementia."
Our justice system should be one of his least worries. He needs to be worried about the eternal justice system. He may not be concerned, but I'm concerned for his eternal life.
I wonder how many people’s confessions he has heard.
They (prosecutors) said he spoke in online chat rooms about having a desire to rape and kill children; his attorney previously said at least one of those conversations was Faucher “role playing” with an author in Brazil.
(Yeah, right!)
Romans 13 at work...
If I had taken Communion from this priest in the past, I think this news would make me wretch.
Within 5 yrs he’ll get out, in a box.
Sounds like he likes to specialize and "minister" to those who are much younger.
25 years for what was a life time of evil.
25 years is a joke. Life is what should have been issued.
“If anyone doubts the reality of true evil ...”
My tagline was written for stories like this.
Pornography is the work of Satan, no doubt about it in my mind. It is not harmless, it will lead you right to hell. I remember attending Mass at St Anthony in Milwaukee, when a young exorcist whose name is Father Cliff Ermatinger(google his name, many of his homilies are online). He mentioned that during one excorism he was speaking to one of the demons and the demon said that certain photographs in porn can be cursed and carry demons into a persons soul....its scary stuff. https://merrilyuphill.com/2015/03/03/exorcisms-101/
“...If you are truly remorseful and repentant, then God can use you IN prison...”
Romans 13 at work...
So, he doesn't plan on sharing the gospel with the imprisoned, as Jesus directed all Christians to do?
The ignorance is stunning.
the Church must stop taking just anybody to be a priest....I'd rather have one good spiritual priest covering several parishes with lay ministers very active then have any of these scum priest....
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