AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
A RETIRED Catholic priest and friend of the NSW attorney general was taken to hospital after being charged with a raft of child sexual offences dating back to the 1970s.
Finian Egan, 77, left a Sydney police station in an ambulance after being questioned and charged with 17 offences today.
Attorney-General Greg Smith has been a long-time friend of Egan, who drove himself to Ryde police station this morning, where detectives escorted him inside.
He was arrested and questioned over alleged sexual offences against four children, police said in a statement.
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