AUSTRALIA
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A former Catholic priest has been jailed for at least five years for sexually abusing girls as young as six.
Media reports say the judge presiding over the case described the assaults as “serious, planned and callous”.
Brian Spillane, 69, has been convicted of abusing girls in the 1970s and 1980s when he worked in Sydney and country areas of New South Wales.
It is understood that Spillane worked at St Stanislaus’ College, Bathurst, where he became close with the family of two boys at the school, later abusing their 11-year-old sister.
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