AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
By Daniel Peters For Daily Mail Australia
A predator Catholic priest who fondled an eight-year-old girl in 1974 will spend just four months behind bars after pleading guilty to the historic sexual abuse offences.
Friar Anthony Colbourne, now aged 75, pleaded guilty in the Brisbane District Court on Tuesday to indecently assaulting the girl on four separate occasions in the presbytery and his office.
In a police statement, the victim said Colbourne told her she had to fondle him because she was a ‘good girl who wants to go to heaven with your mummy and daddy’.
Colbourne was sentenced to 18 months in prison, to be suspended after he has served four months behind bars.
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