NAIROBI (KENYA)
February 2, 2019
By Harun Kutosi
A 60 year old priest was on Friday sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of sexually assaulting four young female parishioners one of whom was nine when the offences began.
The sentence is quite lenient being that he would have faced up to 10 years in prison.
The defilement which proceeded even after three of the victims were adults happened between 2001 and 2016.
The priest is also accused of embezzlement of funds to pay one of the ladies for sexual favors.
One of the young ladies now 29 years old received more than 240,000 euros from the cleric. She was charged with “concealment and breach of trust” but was acquitted as it could not be proven that she knew the source of the money she was receiving.
The hearing was held behind closed doors in north east France at the request of the victims who were minors at the start of the offences.
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