Married Priest Is Guilty of Sexual Assault

By Russell Jenkins
The Times
March 15, 2013

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/crime/article3715152.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2013_03_15

The mother of a teenage girl who was sexually assaulted by a Roman Catholic priest expressed astonishment yesterday that they had known nothing of his secret life as a married man.

Father William Finnegan, 59, had confessed that he had been secretly married to a middle-aged mother of two, and enjoyed a full sex life, in a last ditch attempt to evade conviction.

He is facing a jail sentence after the jury at Bradford Crown Court found him guilty of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old parishoner of St Clare’s RC Church, in Fagley, West Yorkshire.