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	Tasmanian Paedophile Priest Jailed ABC December 13, 2007 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/13/2117935.htm?section=australia 70 year old former priest convicted of maintaining a sexual relationship with a person under the age of 17 has been jailed in the Launceston Criminal Court. Gregory Laurence Ferguson was sentenced today to three years imprisonment with an 18 month non-parole period. Ferguson sexually abused a 12 year old boarder at Burnie's Marist College in 1970, when he was a teacher and priest there. Ferguson was convicted on two other sexual abuse charges earlier this year, and was jailed for two years. He now has a total of five years imprisonment, with a minimum non-parole period of of two and half years. Sentencing Ferguson today, Justice Ewan Crawford said the victim had been psychologically distressed by the crime, and was still disturbed by the events at Marist College. Justice Crawford remarked that although Ferguson suffered from poor health and no other offences had been recorded against him since 1971, a significant period of imprisonment was necessary. He did not add Ferguson to the sexual offenders list, saying he was unlikely to re-offend.
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