BRISBANE (AUSTRALIA)
Brisbane Times
September 13, 2017
Queensland prosecutors will not appeal against the sentence of a Catholic friar jailed for molesting a primary school child.
Anthony Colbourne pleaded guilty in May to indecently assaulting an eight-year-old girl in the presbytery and his office on four separate occasions in 1974.
Colbourne was charged by police in May 2016 after the woman reported to the Royal Commission into Institutional Response into Child Sexual Abuse.
He was sentenced to 18 months’ jail, suspended for three years, after he spent four months behind bars.
Attorney-General Yvette D’Ath said the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions provided advice on the prospect of the success of an appeal against the sentence.
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