A convicted child molester and kiddie-porn collector filed a jailhouse lawsuit to get his stuff back — and an appeals court has ordered a Long Island judge to wade through a mountain of slimy porn to look for personal memories to return to the jailed pervert.

Music and choir teacher Anthony Correnti, 37, was charged with having sex with five underage girls in Manhattan and on Long Island and cops seized more than 10,000 images of his victims and other kiddie porn from him.

He was arrested in 2001 and later pleaded guilty to use of a child in a sexual performance.