AUSTRALIA
9 News
A Catholic priest laicised by the Vatican after a child abuse case says he suspects the church paid the alleged victim in return for evidence against him.
John Gerard Nestor was a priest in the Wollongong Diocese in NSW when he was charged with the indecent assault of a 15-year-old altar boy in 1991.
He was convicted and sentenced to 16 months in jail in Wollongong Local Court on February 18, 1997.
But in October of that year, he won an appeal against the conviction, serving no time behind bars.
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