AUSTRALIA
NEWS.com.au
A CATHOLIC priest accused of child sex offences spanning almost three decades was yesterday found guilty.
A District Court jury found Father Finian Egan, 78, guilty of rape and seven counts of indecent assault.
The charges relate to attacks on three girls, aged between 10 and 17, which occurred between 1961 and 1987 while Egan worked as a priest at Leichhardt and Carlingford as well as The Entrance on the Central Coast.
His trial, which ran for about three weeks, heard that Egan regularly invited a 10-year-old girl into a small room.
The girl lived in a Catholic boarding house at Leichhardt, in Sydney’s inner-west, for almost two years.
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