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Former Catholic priest David Edwin Rapson has had his child sex abuse convictions quashed and been granted bail ahead of fresh trials.
Rapson, 61, was jailed for 13 years in 2013 for rape and sexual assault offences involving eight boys at two Victorian Catholic colleges between the 1970s and 1990.
But he was released on bail on Wednesday after the Victorian Court of Appeal quashed his convictions when the prosecution conceded the charges should not have been dealt with in the one trial.
He will now face fresh trials in the Victorian County Court.
The Office of Public Prosecutions (OPP) concedes the charges against Rapson should have been heard in separate trials, rather than just one.
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