‘Cross-dressing’ priest

[Jazzy]

A suspended Catholic priest who allegedly dealt methamphetamine, owned a sex shop, and occasionally engaged in sex acts with men while crossdressed has asked a judge for leniency when he is sentenced next week.

Monsignor Kevin Wallin, 63, first made headlines in 2013 when he was charged with distributing crystal meth and unusual details began to emerge about his life, including alleged money laundering through a sex shop and engagements in ‘unpriestly’ behaviour with ‘odd-looking men’ while wearing women’s clothes.

And Wallin, who has been dubbed ‘Monsignor Meth’, has asked a federal judge for leniency, citing three decades of charitable service and more than 80 letters of support from figures high up in the clergy.

Wallon, who is the former pastor at St. Augustine Parish in Bridgeport, Connecticut, is accused of receiving shipments of crystal meth from a distributor in California and selling drugs to an undercover officer or six occasions.

He pleaded guilty to a methamphetamine conspiracy charge and agreed to a prison sentence of between 10 and 11 years.

He is now asking for four years in prison and 500 hours of community service when he is sentenced on 24 March.

Should he be granted leniency? Why / Why not?

 

[Evil Eye]

Monsignor Meth sounds like an interesting person

Sentence him to eleven and give him leniency in 5. 500 hours isn't exactly an awful lot though.

 

[Webster]

Monsignor Meth sounds like an interesting person

*deadpans* Maybe the Obama Administration should hire him as the White House Chaplain...

 

[mrldii]

Absolutely no leniency...if anything, the exact opposite. His "charitable acts" were simply a ruse so he could abuse his 'position of trust'; most (if not all) states take a harder stance with crimes committed by those in positions of trust.

Has the Catholic Church defrocked him and divorced themselves from him, yet?

 

[Jazzy]

He pleaded guilty to a methamphetamine conspiracy charge and agreed to a prison sentence of between 10 and 11 years.

He doesn't deserve leniency. He already agreed to the prison sentence.