AUSTRALIA
Big Pond News
Friday, January 25, 2013
Two alleged sexual assault victims of retired Catholic priest, Finian Egan, have waived their right to anonymity.
In the District Court in Sydney on Friday, the prosecution in the case against the 78-year-old asked that a non-publication order on the names of two of Egan’s alleged victims, Nikki Wells and Kellie Roche, be lifted at their request.
In May last year, Egan was arrested and charged with 17 sexual offences that allegedly occurred between 1972 and 1987 while he was serving as a priest in parishes in Sydney and on the NSW Central Coast.
The charges relate to one boy and three girls.
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