AUSTRALIA
International Business Times
By Vittorio Hernandez | November 5, 2013
A jury at the Downing Centre District Court declared on Monday that 78-year-old Fr Finian Egan is guilty of seven counts of indecent assault and one count of rape which he committed over 30 years.
Fr Egan had been assigned as priest and youth worker in several Sydney dioceses and on the central coast.
Among his victims was a 10-year-old female student at the St Martha’s Institution for Disadvantaged Girls at Leichardt. The girl testified, quoted by The Sydney Morning Herald, “Father Egan pulled me onto his knee, he put his hands up my dress, pulled down my underwear and put his hands into my vagina … He had an erection.”
The incident happened at the sacristy of the church.
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