AUSTRALIA/IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Luke Byrne
Wednesday May 02 2012
A RETIRED Irish priest was yesterday rushed to hospital after he was charged by police in Australia with a raft of child-sex offences.
Fr Finian Egan (right) left a Sydney police station by ambulance after being questioned and subsequently charged with 17 offences dating back to the 1970s.
The 77-year-old cleric was charged with 16 counts of indecent assault and one count of rape over a 15-year period.
The charges relate to the alleged sexual abuse of four different children — three girls and a boy — between 1972 and 1987 while he was serving as a priest to parishes in Sydney and the Central Coast.
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