A Catholic priest has admitted that he filmed three dominatrices on the altar of a church.
Travis Clark, who is 39 years old, pleaded guilty to a felony obscenity charge after doing the "demonic" act in the Pearl River, USA, place of worship.
A person walking by noticed that the lights in Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church were still on at night. This led to the shamed priest being caught.
But when they looked out the window in September 2020, they saw Clark half-naked as he romped with two women.
During the steamy act, the women, whose names are Mindy Dixon and Melissa Cheng, wore corsets and boots with high heels.
When police arrived at the church, they found a camera on a tripod that had been filming the priest and professional dominatrices.
The New York Post says that they also found sex toys and stage lighting.
Even though the act was agreed upon, the three people were arrested on obscenity charges because it happened in public.
On the night of the incident, Mindy Dixon was said to have bragged on social media that she was going to "defile a house of God."
Melissa Cheng, a model for OnlyFans who calls herself a "Chinese/German 5'11 Goddess," has called the witness a "snoop" in the past.
She started a GoFundMe account because, after being caught, she was "too upset to work."
At the time, she said, "My privacy is invaded, and I get in trouble.
"Perhaps people shouldn't look in windows at night and then complain about what they see. Ridiculous.
"I'm so upset that I'm having nightmares and panic attacks and can't do anything. I'm worried about everything because of this."
She wrote on her fundraising page, "It is appalling that I am being slandered in this way."
I can see why this might make people angry, but that doesn't make what's going on illegal or wrong in any way."
Clark is no longer a monk. The Advocate says that he has also been given a $1,000 fine and a three-year probation sentence with supervision that has been put on hold.
The altar was burned down after the three people were caught, the archbishop said.
Travis Clark, who used to go to St. Peter and Paul Church in Pearl River, La., was given a $1,000 fine, three years of supervised probation, and a suspended three-year prison sentence.
Clark had already paid the Archdiocese of New Orleans $8,000. Two years ago, Archbishop Gregory Aymond said the altar was desecrated and told Clark to burn it and make a new one.
Michael Kennedy, Clark's lawyer, didn't think it was fair that the state insisted his client plead guilty to a felony.
"I don't think my client will ever be in a situation like this again," Kennedy said. "Wherever Mr. Clark goes from here, I hope he is healthy and able to put this behind him for good."
The women who were on the sex tape, Melissa Cheng, 30, of Alpharetta, Georgia, and Mindy Dixon, 43, of Kent, Washington, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts of institutional vandalism in July, the outlet said.
They were each given two years of probation instead of jail time.
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