Joe.My.God. LGBT News
WSAU Radio reports:
A former Priest at a Wausau area Catholic Church will serve prison time for charges of possessing child pornography.
Timothy Svea was found to have numerous images on his computer last winter. Officials immediately charged him with possession along with a modifier for lifetime supervision of serious sex offenders. He pled no contest to those counts on Monday.
The 60-year-old had previously been sentenced for molesting an underage boy, charges which landed him 18 months in jail back in 2002. Svea will serve three years in prison along with ten years on extended supervision for the new charges.
The Wausau Pilot reports:
Svea, who was suspended of his duties in 2001 by the Institute of Christ the King after allegations surfaced, is now 59 and was living in Mosinee when a new investigation began. Svea was charged anew in December 2022 after a computer technician reported finding the images on a computer that was in for repair.
The previous case sent shock waves through the Wausau area’s Catholic community. According to an Associated Press report from 2002, the abuse began in 1998 while Svea headed a mission group in Monroe County and continued when the group moved in 1999 to St. Mary ‘s in Wausau.
#RT @WausauPilot: A former Wausau Roman Catholic priest previously convicted of molesting teenage boys under his care will spend an additional three years in prison and a lifetime on supervision after police found graphic images of children on his comput… https://t.co/asiGS9I1zw
— Shereen Siewert (@ShereenSiewert) March 27, 2023