A 39-year-old former Catholic priest caught engaging in a threesome with two dominatrices on a church altar in 2020 has pleaded guilty to felony obscenity charges.

Travis Clark was arrested in 2020 after a passer-by claims he saw the light on in a Pearl River church and walked up to witness Clark and two women filming themselves having sex on the altar.

Court documents show the police seized sex toys, stage lights, and two recording devices: a tripod-mounted camera and a cell phone.

Travis Clark was sentenced to three years of supervised probation after his plea in Louisiana’s 22nd Judicial District Court on Monday. He was serving as pastor at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Pearl River at the time.

The two women, Mindy Dixon and Melissa Cheng, were later identified as dominatrices; Dixon had reportedly written on social media shortly before the encounter that she and another dominatrix were on their way to “defile a house of God.” They each pleaded guilty in July to a misdemeanour count of institutional vandalism and got two years of supervised probation.

The altar was later replaced by the church following what the archbishop called “demonic” desecration.