AUSTRALIA
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AAP
Updated May 29, 2013
Civil action against a convicted pedophile priest needs to be expedited because witnesses could die before the case is heard, a Sydney Supreme Court judge has been told.
Brother Thomas Grealy, a principal of the Patrician Brothers primary school in Granville in the 1970s, was convicted and jailed in 1997 for the rape of a 10-year-old student.
He is now being sued by two men who allege he sexually abused them when they were children.
The action against Grealy, the trustees of the school and the archdiocese of Sydney was lodged in 2010 and has yet to be heard, although the case against the archdiocese was dismissed in 2011.
Tony Bartley SC, representing the alleged victims, said some witnesses, including the father of one of the men, were now elderly.
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