Priest to face trial for child porn

(ANSA) - Brindisi, March 23 - Father Franco Legrottaglie will go to trial May 2 for possession of child pornography, sources said Wednesday.
    The 67-year-old prelate from Ostuni in Brindisi province has been under house arrest since November.
    He served in the Brindisi-Ostuni diocese, including as a parish priest and a chaplain at Perrino Hospital in Brindisi.
    He has a previous conviction for "violently libidinous acts" in a 1991 incident, for which he was sentenced to a year and ten months in prison.