AUSTRALIA
Broken Rites
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 20 December 2013)
Child-abuser Father Finian Egan was supported by the Catholic Church and powerful friends but he was finally brought to justice by three of his victims, with help from Broken Rites.
Egan, who sexually assaulted children from his parishes on multiple occasions during his long career in Sydney, has been sentenced to at least four years’ jail.
Three women who were sexually abused as children by Egan have slammed the Catholic Church for harbouring him in the priesthood for five decades.
Egan had been found guilty of seven counts of indecent assault and one count of rape in relation to attacks on these three girls, who were aged 10 to 17, in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s in Sydney and on the New South Wales central coast.
Egan was sentenced on 20 December 2013.
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