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	Ex-Priest Given Prison in Child Porn Case Buffalo News June 7, 2006 http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060607/3069251.asp UTICA (AP) - A defrocked priest with a history of sex-crime allegations was sentenced Tuesday to five to 15 years in state prison for taking nude photos of underage boys. James Tamburrino, 38, of Rome, was found guilty by an Oneida County Court jury in March of using a child in a sexual performance, attempting to use a child in a sexual performance, possessing a sexual performance by a child, and two misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of a child. Tamburrino was accused of taking naked pictures of a 15-year-old boy in July and then approaching another 15-year-old boy to arrange a meeting to take erotic pictures of him. Defense attorney Pal Lengyel-Leahu said Tamburrino believed that one of the boys was older than 17 when he took naked photographs in a Rome motel last summer. Lengyel-Leahu said authorities tried to entrap Tamburrino, who arranged to meet the second boy only after police had the teenager call the ex-priest. Tamburrino was defrocked in 2001.
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