AUSTRALIA
ABC News
A former priest described in court as one of Australia’s worst paedophiles has had his jail term extended for sexually abusing students.
John Sidney Denham, 73, has been serving a 14-year sentence for abusing 40 children, mostly at Newcastle’s St Pius X College in the 1970s and early 80s.
The District Court today handed down a 13-year jail term for abusing another 18 boys, with Judge Syme saying the offences “represent the most abhorrent and sadistic combination of circumstances that courts are likely to see”.
“The offender operated as if he was at some paedophilic smorgasbord, entitled to abuse boys at any time or place of his choosing,” Judge Syme said.
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