AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
October 15, 2013
Paul Bibby
Court Reporter
A woman who was allegedly abused by a Catholic priest in the 1960s says she decided to finally come forward last year after hearing that another girl had allegedly been assaulted by the same priest 20 years later.
The woman, who cannot be named, was giving evidence in the trial of Finian Egan, a 78-year-old former priest who worked at multiple dioceses across NSW during a long career.
Egan is facing eight counts of indecent assault and one of rape in relation to a series of alleged attacks on young girls in the 1960s, 1970s and 1990s.
He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
“What made me come forward was the fact that I discovered something had happened to somebody [at the hands of Egan] in the 1980s,” the woman said during a fraught stint in the witness box at the Downing Centre District Court on Tuesday.
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