LYON (FRANCE)
CNA
March 18, 2020
Bernard Preynat, a former priest of the Archdiocese of Lyon, was convicted and sentenced by a civil court Monday for the sexual abuse of minors.
He abused dozens of minors between 1971 and 1991, and he had been found guilty by an ecclesiastical tribunal last year.
He was charged with sexual assault of 10 minors from 1986 to 1991.
He was found guilty, and sentenced March 16 to five years in prison. He could have been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, and prosecutors sought eight years.
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