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During the appeal of the two priests who were jailed after being convicted of sexually abusing boys at the St Joseph Home in Santa Venera, the defence lawyer asked for new witnesses including the T.V. presenter Lou Bondi.
The T.V. presenter was the victim’s spokesman.
In a statement, Lou Bondi said that he has no difficulty to confirm under oath what he had written on his blog.
“The statements made by Lawrence Grech about me at the time were untrue. At the same time, this has no bearing on my views on whether the sexual abuse had taken place. I never had and still do not have doubt that it did, as confirmed already by the court,” Mr Bondi added.
Last year, Fr Charles Pulis was jailed for 6 years while Fr Godwin Scerri was jailed for 5 years by Magistrate Saviour Demicoli, who also ruled that the case should no longer remain behind closed doors. The defence had asked for the case to be heard behind closed doors, prompting the victims to declare that this helped it ask certain questions without public scrutiny.
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