AUSTRALIA
7 News
ABC
One of Australia’s most notorious paedophile Catholic priests has died in a Victorian prison.
Corrections Victoria has confirmed Michael Glennon died of what is believed were natural causes at the Hopkins Correctional Centre at Ararat, west of Melbourne.
Glennon was serving a 10-year minimum sentence for child sexual offences committed between 1973 and 1991.
Most of his victims were children who were in his care at a camp near Lancefield, north of Melbourne, in the 1980s.
Glennon was due to complete his sentence in 2016.
Dr Bernard Barrett from Broken Rites says Glennon’s case was a turning point for the prosecution of paedophile priests.
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