AUSTRALIA
Western Advocate
May 2, 2014
A FORMER Catholic priest who sexually abused three Victorian schoolboys made one of his victims kneel before him and beg forgiveness.
James Patrick Jennings, 81, will spend the next four months behind bars after assaulting the boys while a priest at Bendigo’s St Vincent’s College in the 1960s.
Jennings, a former teacher priest at St Stanislaus College in the 1960s, was charged with six counts of indecent assaults against four students at the school, but in 2010 was found not guilty on all charges.
This week the Victorian County Court heard Jennings preyed upon the young boarders, working out in which dormitory they slept and when they would be alone.
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