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Sydney Catholic priest Finian Egan regularly invited a 10-year-old girl into a small room.
When she told nuns what he was doing to her, she was called a filthy little liar and was forced to drink caster oil as punishment.
This is the evidence a Sydney court heard from an alleged victim of the priest, who is on trial for sexually assaulting three young girls.
The woman lived in a Catholic boarding house at Leichhardt, in Sydney’s inner west, for almost two years.
She said she well remembers one occasion in March 1961.
Egan invited her to his sacristy, a room where a priest prepares for a service and where church furnishings are kept.
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