AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Joanna Menagh
A 79-year-old Catholic priest has been jailed for three years for sexually abusing two young girls in Perth decades ago.
Patrick Holmes pleaded guilty to six child sex charges, which were laid against him earlier this year.
The first three offences were committed in 1969 and involved a girl aged about six or seven.
Holmes was the parish priest at Holy Name Church in Carlisle and the offences were committed to a victim in the presbytery.
The last three offences happened in the early 1980s, in the presbytery of the Saint Aloysius Church in Shenton Park where Holmes was again the parish priest.
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