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AAP
April 16, 2013
A NSW priest who sexually abused underage girls says evidence about how hypnosis could have distorted the memories of witnesses should have been allowed into his trial.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is appealing his sentence and conviction after he was found guilty in 2010 of nine counts of indecently assaulting two underage girls and a 16-year-old girl.
Describing the assaults as “predatory and planned”, Judge Michael Finnane sentenced him in 2012 to a minimum of five years in prison, with his earliest date of parole set for November 2015.
But in a hearing before the Court of Criminal Appeal on Tuesday, his solicitor Greg Walsh said justice had been miscarried on a number of fronts.
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