AUSTRALIA
The West Australian
TIM CLARKE The West Australian
July 24, 2014
A former Catholic priest who molested two girls while serving at two separate Perth churches in the late 1960s and early 1980s has been jailed for three years.
Father Patrick Holmes, 79, admitted the charges of indecent assault at his first appearance at Perth Magistrate’s Court earlier this year.
And at Perth’s District Court today, Judge Henry Wisbey told Holmes he had abused his position in order to abuse the girls – the youngest being just seven years old – at two separate parishes
The court was told the first allegation stemmed from his time as a priest at the Catholic Holy Name Church in Carlisle in 1969.
The abuse occurred in the presbytery on at least three occasions, when Holmes touched the girl on her vagina and rubbed his crotch against hers.
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