St. John's Priest E-Mailed Dirty Home Movies to 'Teen'

A chaplain at St. John's University was arraigned yesterday for sending homemade masturbation movies to someone he thought was a 13-year-old boy. It turned out that Father Charles Plock was actually e-mailing a Colorado sheriff the videos in which his face is clearly visible and which appear to have been shot on campus. Plock also serves on the board for Covenant House, the nonprofit organization that shelters runaway teens. One teenage freshman at St. John's called Plock "way too cool to be a priest" while another said to the Daily News, "Father Charlie? No way! He was a pretty all right guy." As he left the Queens courthouse where he appeared yesterday, a crowd heckled Plock shouting "Shame on you!" and "Pedophile!" The $15,000 needed for a bond to have Plock released to psychiatric facility was put up by fellow priests at St. John's.

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By Billy Parker in News on October 11, 2008 3:54 PM

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Amelia Bedelia

"His face is clear in the video. It looks like he filmed it in his bathroom at St. John's..."

Ewwwww......

HUGO_MEGO

Father Charles Plock is an Obama supporter without a doubt.

west side Michael

What do you expect from a church that dresses

their superiors in capes and gowns and funny hats?

Lawsuits are acoming again to the Vatican.

Ritter the pervert was sent by this Holy Church

to India,where the kids molested don't complain

no doubt,shame.

NannyState

Covenant House once again! Seems like the Most Holy Father Ritter had an understudy...and what a charmer too! "Father Charlie": the kind of moniker reserved for a corpse found at the bottom of a stairwell at Rikers.

JacqueMehoff

the internets is a wonderful invention,

he probably remembers when you had to send photos through the mail. clergy should not have access to computers or a webcam.