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Genevieve Gannon – AAP on October 4, 2016
A pedophile priest who abused Victorian children as young as four over three decades is about to pay the price for his crimes.
Robert Patrick Claffey, 73, will be sentenced on Tuesday afternoon after he pleaded guilty to fondling and indecently assaulting 12 children while practising as a Catholic priest in the 1970s, 80s and 90s.
Many of the priest’s victim’s gave evidence at an emotional pre-sentence hearing in Geelong last month.
One told of being molested by the pedophile priest who came to his family home offering “pastoral care” following the death of the victim’s brother.
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