AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Thomas Oriti
A Catholic priest remains on bail after being found guilty of child sex offences committed in New South Wales over almost 30 years.
Father Finian Egan was on trial for seven counts of indecent assault and one count of rape between 1961 and 1987, while he worked as a priest at Leichhardt and Carlingford in Sydney, and The Entrance on the Central Coast.
The court was told he targeted girls aged between 10 and 17.
Today in the Downing Centre District Court, a jury found 78-year-old Egan guilty of the eight charges.
The ABC understands that a complaint from one of his victims in the case was upheld by the church in 2009, but it celebrated Egan’s career in a mass just weeks later.
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