WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) — A former Priest at a Wausau area Catholic Church will serve prison time for charges of possessing child pornography.
Timothy Svea was found to have numerous images on his computer last winter. Officials immediately charged him with possession along with a modifier for lifetime supervision of serious sex offenders. He pled no contest to those counts on Monday.
The 60-year-old had previously been sentenced for molesting an underage boy, charges which landed him 18 months in jail back in 2002.
Svea will serve three years in prison along with ten years on extended supervision for the new charges. Conditions of his extended supervision include no access to social media, completing all treatment and counseling, and no contact with anyone under the age of 18.
Officers were tipped off to the images by a computer repairman, who found them on Seva’s machine when he took it in for service. He was arrested last December at his home in Mosinee.
He’s served numerous Catholic Churches in the Wausau and Cashton areas.
