A Catholic priest has staked out an early claim for Worst Person of 2017 by blaming his kiddie porn conviction on his crap poker skills.

On Friday, Rev. Kevin Gugliotta, who formerly worked at the Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Church in Union, New Jersey, was sentenced to just shy of two years in prison after pleading guilty in March to disseminating child pornography. Gugilotta was given credit for the 10 months he’s spent in custody awaiting sentencing.

The 55-year-old Gugliotta was arrested last October after he uploaded multiple images of boys as young as eight years old engaged in sexual activity from his vacation home in Pennsylvania.

Naturally, it was later revealed that Gugliotta was suspended from church activity in 2003 for molesting a teenage boy in the 1980s. However, Church officials in Newark quietly reinstated him the following year based on their reasoning that Gugliotta was a layman at the time of the offense. Well done, Catholics. Well done.