AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
Louise Hall
Victims of the notorious paedophile priest Brian Joseph Spillane have told of devastating and lifelong effects suffered due to the sexual abuse experienced at a prestigious Catholic country boarding school between the 1970s and 1990s.
Spillane, 73, sat with his back to the public gallery and refused to look at the victims during the harrowing accounts given to the Downing Centre District Court on Friday.
The former teacher at St Stanislaus’ College, Bathurst, in central west NSW, has been found guilty of a string of child sexual abuse charges over a series of trials that have taken place since 2008.
A non-publication order on Spillane’s name and the school, known as “Stannies”, has been lifted after a jury found him guilty of several charges of buggery, indecent assault and sexual assault late last year.
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