AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
SHANNON DEERY MERCURY APRIL 01, 2015
A FORMER Hobart Catholic priest who plied boys with cigarettes and alcohol before raping them deserves a sentencing discount because he is unwell, a court has heard.
David Edwin Rapson, who taught at Dominic College in the 1980s, has many victims from his offending that spanned three decades.
In 2013 he was jailed for 13 years for crimes on children, but was released on appeal after serving 11 months.
His convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal after a concession by the Office of Public Prosecutions that Rapson should have faced several trials.
It admitted that because of the varying nature of his offending it was unfair for all matters to be determined by a single jury, as they had been.
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