Bradford priest William Finnegan jailed for sexual assault

UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News

A priest has been jailed for six months for sexually assaulting a teenage girl, in what a judge described as an “enormous breach of trust”.

William Finnegan, 60, “passionately” kissed the 17-year-old and touched her bottom at St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in Fagley, Bradford last Easter.

He was sentenced at Bradford Crown Court after he was found guilty by a jury.

During the trial it emerged he had been secretly married since 1999.

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