AUSTRALIA
Broken Rites
By a Broken Rites researcher
(This article was last updated
on 2 May 2012.)
On 1 May 2012, New South Wales police charged Catholic priest Father Finian Egan with alleged sexual abuse of four children in the Sydney region in the 1970s and ’80s.
Father Egan, who is aged 77 in 2012, belongs to the Broken Bay diocese, which covers parishes to the north of Sydney Harbour (including on the NSW central coast). He is listed as a priest in the latest edition of the annual Australian Catholic Directory, published in mid 2011.
Father Egan, who maintains his innocence, was charged with 16 counts of indecent assault and one count of rape, relating to alleged assaults while he was a priest in Sydney and the NSW central coast.
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