AUSTRALIA
Sky News
A court has heard a 10-year-old girl was called a ‘filthy little liar’ after she told nuns she was being sexually abused by a Sydney Catholic priest.
77-year-old Finian Egan is facing eight counts of indecent assault and one count of rape relating to assaults on three girls between 1961 and 1987.
One of his alleged victims told his trial at the Downing Centre District Court that Egan would invite her into a room and sexually assault her.
The woman, who lived in a Catholic boarding house at Leichhardt for two years, said she remembers one occasion vividly in March 1961, when Egan pulled her close and pulled off her underwear and sexually assaulted her.
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