AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
December 16, 2013
Paul Bibby
Court Reporter
Three women who were sexually abused as children by prominent Sydney priest Finian Egan have confronted the 71-year-old in court and slammed the Catholic Church for allowing him to continue working for five decades.
“May God have mercy on your soul, Father Egan, because I certainly don’t,” a woman who was raped by Egan at the age of 16 told him as he faced a sentencing hearing in the Downing Centre District Court on Monday.
“You took away my chance to experience my first kiss with a boy, and my first sexual experience.
Last month, Egan was found guilty of seven counts of indecent assault and one count of rape in relation to attacks on girls aged 10 to 17 in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s in Sydney and on the central coast.
Prosecutors are pursuing a custodial sentence.
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