Married priest is guilty of sexual assault

UNITED KINGDOM
The Times

Russell Jenkins

The mother of a teenage girl who was sexually assaulted by a Roman Catholic priest expressed astonishment yesterday that they had known nothing of his secret life as a married man.

Father William Finnegan, 59, had confessed that he had been secretly married to a middle-aged mother of two, and enjoyed a full sex life, in a last ditch attempt to evade conviction.

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