AUSTRALIA
Sky News
An elderly NSW priest who sexually preyed on young girls for three decades has been jailed for at least four years.
Father Finian Egan, who ‘escaped punishment for 50 years’, will be 83 when he is eligible for parole, Judge Robyn Tupman ruled in the District Court in Sydney on Friday.
Egan, who sat with one hand on his face during the sentencing, made no reaction as it was handed down.
His victims stood and watched in silence as he was taken away to jail for the first time.
The Catholic priest sexually abused three girls between the ages of 10 and 17 while he worked in various dioceses in Sydney and the Central Coast in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s.
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