AUSTRALIA
SBS
AAP
For years a Catholic priest viewed a NSW school where he taught as a “pedophilic smorgasbord” catering to his depraved desires.
Unfettered by the church, John Sidney Denham abused dozens of boys whenever and wherever he chose.
He found new victims during his frequent transfers to parishes across the state.
Denham, at 73, is already in the middle of a jail term, handed to him in 2010 for his sexual assault of boys as young as five.
But on Friday, Judge Helen Syme sentenced the priest to another 13 years jail for charges stemming from his abuse of 18 boys at St Pius X in the Hunter in the 1970s.
“Some of the offences represent the most abhorrent and sadistic combination of circumstances that courts are likely to see,” she said.
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