AUSTRALIA
The Mercury
By LUKE SAYER
29nov05
A FAILED priest who preyed on teenage boys for more than a decade pleaded guilty to a string of child-sex offences yesterday.
Paul Ronald Goldsmith, 60, who now lives in the Hobart suburb of Lenah Valley, molested 20 boys between 1976 and 1987 at his homes at Ulverstone and Port Sorell in Tasmania's North-West and on camping trips around the state.
He also attacked boys while coaching athletics at Marist Regional College in Burnie.
In the Supreme Court in Burnie he pleaded guilty to four counts of maintaining a sexual relationship with a person under 17 years, one count of aggravated sexual assault, one count of unlawful sexual intercourse and 36 counts of indecent assault.
Hobart-born Goldsmith trained as a priest but was never ordained.