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Andi Yu – AAP on October 4, 2016
A victim of sexual assault fist-pumped his supporters in a Sydney court as the Maronite priest convicted of abusing him was led away into custody.
The 40-year-old clergyman had pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting the victim in 2005 but was found guilty by a jury earlier this year.
On Tuesday at the Campbelltown District Court the man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was sentenced to a minimum jail term of 12 months.
But, no sooner had judge Penelope Wass delivered the sentence, the priest’s defence Greg James QC told the court that papers had been lodged to appeal against the conviction.
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