Nuns Called Child Sex Victim 'Liar'

The Sky News
October 14, 2013

http://www.skynews.com.au/national/article.aspx?id=914952


A court has heard a 10-year-old girl was called a 'filthy little liar' after she told nuns she was being sexually abused by a Sydney Catholic priest.

77-year-old Finian Egan is facing eight counts of indecent assault and one count of rape relating to assaults on three girls between 1961 and 1987.

One of his alleged victims told his trial at the Downing Centre District Court that Egan would invite her into a room and sexually assault her.

The woman, who lived in a Catholic boarding house at Leichhardt for two years, said she remembers one occasion vividly in March 1961, when Egan pulled her close and pulled off her underwear and sexually assaulted her.

She says when she told the nuns about it they called her a 'filthy little liar' and punished her.

Egan, who still works as a priest, is accused of assaulting girls aged between 10 and 17 in the Sydney suburbs of Leichhardt and Carlingford and at The Entrance on the Central Coast.