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LEMA SAMANDAR – AAP
November 4, 2013
A Catholic priest accused of child sex offences spanning almost three decades, has been found guilty.
Father Finian Egan, 78, was found guilty of rape and seven counts of indecent assault by a jury in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court on Monday.
The charges relate to three girls aged between 10 and 17, between 1961 and 1987 while he worked as a priest at Leichhardt and Carlingford in Sydney, and The Entrance on the Central Coast.
His trial, which ran for about three weeks, heard that Egan regularly invited a 10-year-old girl into a small room.
The girl lived in a Catholic boarding house at Leichhardt, in Sydney’s inner-west, for almost two years.
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