Louisiana judge orders return of devices to ex-priest caught having sex on church altar | Louisiana

A judge in Louisiana ordered the return of electronics belonging to an ex-Roman Catholic priest who pleaded guilty of obscenity for being surprised having two dominators at the top of an altar of the church while belonging to the clergy in 2020.

However, the judge also told authorities to erase all data from the devices and storage media as a precaution against videos made of the meeting to become public.

The decision of the Court of State Ellen Creel came in the case centered on Travis Clark as well as dominators whose professional names are Lady VI (also known as Satanatrix) and Empress Ming. The videos in question have been under the seal of the court indefinite since the meeting of the trio made the headlines of international newspapers in 2020.

Clark lawyers, Marc Hoerner and Michael Kennedy, said that Creel on August 4 had signed an order authorizing law enforcement officials to return mobile phones, tablets, computers, game consoles, flash readers and memory cards that they had seized with Clark while he was the subject of an investigation.

Even if Hoerner said that he did not believe that none of the sealed videos was on Clark electronics, the former pastor was still waiting for the return of his property on Friday while the civil servants wiped them for all the data.

Hoerner added that he did not believe that the dominators – who finally pleaded guilty of crimes – have already asked for the return of electronics which was seized during the case. However, if they had ever recovered them, those responsible would also wipe this data from all data, said Hoerner.

Kennedy and Hoerner refused other comments. But The Guardian learned from several sources with knowledge of the case which – among others – the videos represented a chalice of urine communion wine.

The videos also portray Clark carrying a style of underwear generally carried by women as well as to engage in a sexual act in a dormitory on the church field where he was a pastor of Pearl River, Louisiana, about 40 miles (64 km) in the north of New Orleans, the many sources said.

Clark, Lady VI and Empress Ming all fell under the control of the authorities after a passer -by who looks through a window saw the three obviously filming sex on the STS PETER and Paul church altar on September 30, 2020.

Police responded to the church after being called by the passer -by, who took a mobile phone video from what he could see. In addition to the arrest of the group, the police confiscated the lights of the scene, the recording devices and the sex toys.

The Archbishop of New Orleans, Gregory Aymond – whose archdiocese had filed a request for federal protection of bankruptcy of months earlier in the midst of the fallout of a scandal of sexual assault on the child’s old decades – if the altar had burned and devoted a replacement.

Hoerner previously argued that Clark’s actions may have offended Catholics but were legal and consensual acts in adults. Nevertheless, Hoener said, to keep his client to continue his life, Clark pleaded guilty to obscenity in 2022.

The women, who went to Pearl River, Louisiana, from the outside of the State, pleaded guilty in institutional vandalism in the same year and, like Clark, they were sentenced to probation.

Clark ended up serving a prison sentence after being noted having violated his probation conditions by giving an interview to the NBC subsidiary of New Orleans in which he explained the episode from his point of view.

He declared to the NBC station, WDSU, that the Catholic priests of single life promise to direct with the practices of social disposition implemented during the Covid-19 pandemic at the time which had faced it “problems of loneliness and wanting human interaction”.

“In difficulty and falling, sinning too – the priests also sin,” said Clark, who voluntarily left the priesthood. He continued by saying that he still believed in God and continued to consider “mercy and very important forgiveness”.

Lady VI gave an interview in the October issue of Hustler magazine in which she said that she was “invited to shooting the shooting”, and the filming location was at the church.

“Unfortunately, the intruders filmed us without our consent,” said Lady VI to publication. She referred to the subsequent prosecution of the group, criticized the coverage of the media of the case, alluded to aymond remarks that the sex of the altar was “demonic” and said: “What matters is that we consent to adults spinning porn in a private place.

“But because we were in the [southern US region known as the] The biblical belt and the building had a mythical meaning, it was considered a crime. »»