SYDNEY (AUSTRALIA)
Lexology
January 13 2020
Sydney Criminal Lawyers
Disgraced former Catholic Priest James Joseph Cunneen, who was found guilty of indecent assault against six teenage boys in New South Wales in the late 1980s, has died before he could be sentenced.
60-year old Mr Cunneen was due to be sentenced in Downing Centre District Court on 14 February 2020. He was arrested, charged and prosecuted last year after information given to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in 2014.
After an extensive investigation, police extradited Mr Cunneen back to Australia in 2017 where he was charged.
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