AUSTRALIA
Broken Rites
Broken Rites has researched a Sydney Catholic priest, Father Finian Egan, who has has been found guilty on one charge of rape and seven charges of indecent assault, committed against four young girls during a period of almost three decades.
On Monday 4 November 2013, a jury returned these Guilty verdicts in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court. He was found not guilty on one other charge of indecent assault.
Finian James Egan worked as a priest at Leichhardt and Carlingford (suburbs in Sydney), and at The Entrance (north of Sydney on the Central Coast).
The court was told that he targeted girls aged between 10 and 17 in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
Egan, aged 78 in 2013, pleaded not guilty to all charges.
The court was told that Egan is still officially a priest, although (now in his late seventies) he has retired from being in charge of a parish.
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