By: The Evansville Courier & Press has filed a Freedom of Information request seeking a probable cause affidavit that details child pornography allegations against a man who oversees a seminary?s computer network.
More than six weeks after the arrest of Shawn Kilgore, the computer network administrator at St. Meinrad Archabbey and School of Theology in Spencer County, Warrick County court officials still have not released the affidavit detailing the allegations that led to his arrest.
The delay is unusual. Kilgore, who was charged April 10, has already appeared in court, bonded out of jail and been assigned an Oct. 10 trial date.
Warrick County Prosecutor Todd Corne has said, however, that none of the alleged illegal activity occurred at St. Meinrad, which includes a community of 120 Roman Catholic monks and a seminary with about 80 men training for the priesthood.
John Farless, a St. Meinrad spokesman, said Kilgore continues to work at the archabbey about 50 miles east of Evansville.
Court officials say they are struggling to comply with the newspaper?s request for the affidavit while following a new Indiana Supreme Court rule that took effect in January 2005.
That rule, known as Administrative Rule 9, requires courts to keep certain personal information ? such as Social Security numbers and juvenile victims? names ? confidential while still making the rest of the document available to the public.
However, a top state court administrator and the director of a state prosecutors? group both say Warrick County officials could have created two versions of the affidavit ? one confidential and one not ? at the outset when charges were filed. The Courier & Press requested the probable-cause affidavit May 12.
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