AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun

MARK BUTTLER HERALD SUN JANUARY 01, 2014

NOTORIOUS paedophile Catholic priest Michael Charles Glennon has died in jail.

Glennon, who was convicted of sex charges against children as young as seven, died today in the Hopkins Correctional Centre in Ararat.

By 2003 he had been convicted of abusing 15 children, but police believe there were many more victims.

He first went to jail in 1978, for molesting a 10-year-old girl in his car.

It was the only time he admitted guilt, forcing his many victims to endure long and traumatic criminal trials.

Glennon was still a priest after his release from jail for that crime, practising in a freelance capacity mainly to immigrant and Aboriginal communities.