AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Lucy Carter
Victims of the notorious paedophile priest Brian Joseph Spillane have told a Sydney court about the “indescribable hell” their lives became after being abused as children at St Stanislaus College at Bathurst.
Spillane is being sentenced on 18 offences including buggery and sexual assault after being found guilty after two separate trials last year.
Strict non-publication orders in place since 2013 prevented reporting on his numerous cases, however they were lifted by Judge Robyn Tupman late last year.
The 73-year-old has been in custody since 2010, and convicted of dozen offences against boys and girls in the years since, both at St Stanislaus College and during his work as a priest in Sydney and regional New South Wales.
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