Notorious Paedophile Priest Given Just 15-month Suspended Sentence Despite Horrific Sex Acts against a 13-year-old Boy - As Judge Says His Offences Were at "the Lower End of Criminality"

By Nelson Groom
Daily Mail
October 14, 2016

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Infamous paedophile priest Vincent Gerard Ryan has preyed upon dozens of schoolboys between 1972 and 1991

Infamous paedophile priest Vincent Gerard Ryan has gotten off with a suspended sentence for the sickening sexual abuse of a boy, 13, in the 1980s.

The disgraced Catholic priest forced his penis into the victim's mouth, masturbated him and attempted to sexually penetrate him in a church in Gresford, in the Hunter Region of NSW.

Ryan, who has already served 15 years jail for abusing dozens of schoolboys, was on Friday handed a 15-month suspended sentence in the Darlinghurst Courthouse, reports ABC.

The court heard his victim for this case was an altar boy aged between 13 and 15 during the abuse.

Acting Judge Norman Delaney said it was a difficult sentencing Ryan because has reportedly been fully rehabilitated and the offences were 'at the lower end of criminality'.

The court heard he did not remember the victim because there had been so many similar cases of abuse at the hands of Ryan.

Ryan has gotten off with a suspended sentence in the Darlinghurst Courthouse for the horriffic abuse of a boy, 13

Ryan has previously spent 14 years in jail for preying on 35 boys aged six to 14 between 1972 and 1991, walking free from Long Bay jail in 2010.

Last month Ryan claimed six years of sessions with a psychologist and his treatment by other inmates in jail had shed light on 'the gravity' of his actions.

He said he became aware of the damage he had caused through media reports and other inmates in jail where he had been hated universally.