UNITED KINGDOM
Yorkshire Post
A SECRETLY-married priest who sexually assaulted a teenage girl in what a judge described as an “enormous breach of trust” was today jailed for six months.
William Finnegan, known to his parishioners as Father Bill, touched the 17-year-old’s bottom and “passionately” kissed her at St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in Fagley, Bradford last Easter.
Finnegan, 60, remains “in denial” about the offence, which led to his “considerable fall from grace” the Recorder of Bradford Judge Roger Thomas QC said as he jailed Finnegan.
“It just seems to me he cannot face up to what he’s done,” Judge Thomas added.
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