AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
Australian Associated Press
Sunday 10 May 2015
A paedophile priest dubbed a “sadist” by his victims has been jailed for at least nine years for luring schoolboys to his office with video games, cigarettes and alcohol before sexually abusing them.
Former Catholic cleric David Edward Rapson, 61, was found guilty of sexually abusing six boys at two Victorian boarding schools in the 1970s and 1980s.
In 2013 Rapson was jailed for 13 years, but was bailed 12 months later when the Victorian court of appeal quashed his rape and sexual assault convictions.
He was found guilty in three new trials in February and March this year.
In sentencing on Monday, county court judge James Parrish described Rapson as a sexual predator who took advantage of the trust he had as a teacher and spiritual adviser.
He said some of the aggravating circumstances of the abuse against the boys, who were aged between 11 and 16 at the time, bordered on sadistic.
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