AUSTRALIA
9 News
Father Finian Egan had escaped punishment for sexually abusing young girls for more than 50 years.
But now the frail and elderly Catholic priest has been jailed for at least four years for abusing three young NSW girls over the course of three decades.
Egan’s victims, whose lives were irrevocably damaged by the abuse inflicted on them, stood in the District Court in Sydney on Friday and watched as he was falteringly led away to spend his first night in jail.
He will be 83 years of age by the time he is eligible for release.
Egan enjoyed a position of power and privilege as a Catholic priest at a time when, among religious communities, priests were considered among the elite of society.
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