AUSTRALIA
Daily Telegraph
ALISON BALDING MT DRUITT-ST MARYS STANDARD FEBRUARY 20, 2015
FORMER St Marys parish priest Richard St John Cattell has been sentenced to two years and six months jail for child sex offences.
The 74-year-old faced Penrith District Court today charged with two counts of sexual assault and indecent assault to a child aged under 16.
The offences were committed against an altar boy, 12, during the 1980s while he served at Our Lady of the Rosary parish at St Marys.
Judge Jennifer English sentenced Cattell to one year and six months for the sexual assault charges and two years and six months for the indecent assault charge to be served concurrently.
He will be eligible for supervised parole on August 19, 2016.
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