NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand Herald
Two sex abuse victims of former priest Mark Mannix Brown say his jail sentence brings them closure but say anything less would have belittled his actions.
It is now the second prison term Brown, 74, will have served for molesting young boys while he worked as a priest in the Catholic Church around Hamilton and Auckland in the 1970s and 80s.
Brown pleaded guilty to four representative charges after a sentence indication in the Hamilton District Court in May this year.
Today, Judge Simon Menzies sentenced Brown to 26 months’ jail.
He was first jailed for 15 months in March 1990 for indecently assaulting two altar boys in the 1980s when he was at St Mary’s Church, Hamilton.
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