William Kokesch, now 68, worked for the CCCB from 1995 to 2005 and helped coordinate Canadian participation at World Youth Day in 1997, 2000, 2002, and 2005.
If the charges are proven, the scandal would be the second involving child pornography to fall at the door of the Canadian bishops after the 2009 arrest of Raymond Lahey, the former bishop of Antigonish, N.S.