Police had raided his diocese-owned home back in February. Police found Faucher in his underwear in the middle of an online chat, and on his computer, a trove of some of the worst child pornography images and videos investigators had ever seen.
Raped children. Tortured children. Infants and toddlers, young boys and girls, burned and hurt and choked and nearly drowned.
“All child pornography is terrible, your Honor. All child pornography is gut-wrenching,” Prosecutor Kassandra Slaven said. “But when you have videos with sound of infants and toddlers being brutally raped, when you have videos of children being tortured, when you have videos that focus solely on extreme violence to children - that’s just on a completely different level.”
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Garden City Det. John Brumbaugh, a member of the Idaho Crimes Against Children Task Force, said the magnitude of the abusive images found was staggering.
“The volume of it is something I hadn’t come across,” he said.
Meticulously poring through those images - along with extensive online chat logs, in which Faucher discussed his desire to sexually abuse and murder children - took a toll on Brumbaugh and the other detectives working on the case. The fact that a priest was capable of such depravity increased the blow.
“Speaking for myself, after the initial onset of this, I made a point of forcing myself to go back to church immediately following, because I didn’t know if I would if I didn’t go back right then,” Brumbaugh sai
