Former Priest Pleads Guilty In Child Porn Case

Former Florissant priest John Hess has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography that he got from the Internet. Hess will be sentenced in July – could get two years in prison. Investigators say Hess was part of the Internet group known as Candyman, an international group of people exchanging child porn. Police who seized Hess’s computer in March say they found hundreds of images stored on it.