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A NOTORIOUS paedophile priest laughed while he watched boys as young as six years old have sex with one another.
One of those boys, Scott Hallett, says he is scarred by what he was forced to do by NSW priest Vincent Ryan but, at the time, he did not realise he was being abused.
“At the time I didn’t know what Father Ryan was doing was wrong,” Mr Hallett, 51, told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse this week.
It was 1975 and Ryan was routinely abusing alter boys at a primary school in East Gregford, near Dungog, two hours north of Sydney.
The former Catholic priest previously spent 14 years in jail for abusing dozens of boys aged between six and 14 during the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s.
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