AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
A former Catholic priest has been found guilty of sexually assaulting boys while he was their dorm master at a Victorian boarding school.
A jury on Monday found James Patrick Jennings, 80, guilty of indecently assaulting three boys at St Vincent’s College in Bendigo in the 1960s.
The victims were students in their early teens at the time.
The Victorian County Court jury found Jennings guilty of five counts of indecent assault.
He was cleared of a sixth indecent assault charge.
Jennings had pleaded not guilty to all six charges.
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