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	Ex-Priest Avoids Jail over Indecent Acts The Age August 9, 2007 http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Expriest-avoids-jail-over-indecent-acts/2007/08/09/1186530521595.html Australia — A former priest who committed three acts of indecency while teaching at a Sydney Catholic girls' school has received an 18-month suspended jail term. Michael Slattery, 60, who now lives in Western Australia, pleaded guilty in Sydney's Downing Centre District Court to the three offences, which occurred when he was a lay teacher in the early 1980s. Judge Gregory Woods has imposed an 18-month suspended jail term. Slattery was stood down from his duties as a priest in 2005.
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