AUSTRALIA
9 News
AAP
A pedophile priest who “overlooked” one victim when he confessed to sexually abusing dozens of boys should not be sent back to jail, a judge has been told.
Former NSW Hunter region priest Vincent Gerard Ryan, who was released in 2010 after 14 years behind bars, said when he had tried to “wipe the slate clean” he had “no memory” of a case now before the District Court.
The 78-year-old’s lawyer, Mark Preece, submitted it would be a “truly crushing and horrible outcome” for the aged and rehabilitated offender to return to jail.
The notorious pedophile has pleaded guilty to attempting homosexual intercourse with a male under 18, indecent assault and gross indecency of an altar boy in the mid-1980s.
The abuse was revealed when that victim faced a sentence hearing for sex offences.
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