AUSTRALIA
Daily Telegraph
JOEL CRESSWELL AAP AUGUST 07, 2014
A MELBOURNE Catholic priest has been jailed for abusing an altar boy during a sexual education lesson more than 40 years ago.
PRIEST James Henry Scannell was asked by a long-time friend and member of his East Kew parish to discuss puberty with her nephew in the early 1970s.
Instead, Scannell, wearing only a dressing gown, led the boy into his bedroom, stripped him naked and sexually abused him.
Victorian County Court Judge David Parsons on Thursday jailed Scannell for two years, telling the 88-year-old he had abused his position of authority.
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