AUSTRALIA
Broken Rites
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 16 December 2013)
Three women who were sexually abused as children by prominent Sydney priest Finian Egan have confronted the 78-year-old in court and have slammed the Catholic Church for harbouring him in the priesthood for five decades.
On 16 December 2013, Sydney District Court began pre-sentence proceedings regarding Egan.
Previously, Egan had been 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 New South Wales central coast. Prosecutors are pursuing a custodial sentence.
The pre-sentence hearing is so that the court can receive submissions from the prosecution and defence before a sentence is finally imposed.
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