AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Elizabeth Byrne
Updated 3 Oct 2014
A man who sexually abused eight young girls who attended his family’s home church in Canberra has been jailed for 14 years.
Cameron Flynn Tully, 40, was found guilty of 18 counts of sexual assault, ranging from rape to acts on indecency, after a trial in June.
Sentencing Tully, Justice John Burns described the abuse as “brazen, revealing an arrogant belief that your victims would not report the crimes, and if they did would not be believed”.
The crimes were committed in the 1990s and early 2000s at his family’s farm in Cook where he would mind the children of people attending meetings, including home church.
Justice Burns said it was clear the abuse was a pattern of behaviour that continued over about 10 years and was not a single isolated event.
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