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AAP
Former priest Brian Spillane took advantage of homesick young boarding school students to satisfy his sick desires, then used emotional blackmail to ensure his victims kept quiet.
The pedophile told the boys no one would believe them if they spoke out – even telling one victim that the news would have a serious effect on his ill mother’s health.
“All sorts of emotional blackmail was used,” Crown prosecutor Elizabeth Wilkins SC told the NSW District Court on Friday.
The 73-year-old former chaplain at St Stanislaus College in Bathhurst is facing sentence for sex offences committed against 21 victims in the 1970s and 1980s.
Spillane is already serving a minimum 11-year sentence for previous convictions.
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