AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail (UK)
By Daniel Peters For Daily Mail Australia and AAP
A paedophile priest who sexually abused vulnerable and homesick boys for over two decades could spend the rest of his life in jail.
Father Brian Spillane was a charismatic priest and college chaplain, and generally well regarded by the school and others.
But his ‘respected position’ masked a manipulative predator who sexually abused boys who sought his help over two decades at St Stanislaus College in Bathurst.
Now the 74-year-old former clergyman faces the prospect of dying in jail after he was sentenced in the NSW District Court on Thursday for the assaults on boys aged under 16 in the 1970s and 1980s.
The most serious charge was buggery (anal intercourse).
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