AUSTRALIA
The West Australian
[with video]
BY ISABEL HAYES
December 16, 2013
It was a chilling, final message from a rape victim to the elderly priest who stole her childhood 40 years ago.
“May God have mercy on your soul Father Egan,” the woman said.
“Because I certainly don’t.”
As three women abused by child predator Father Finian Egan over three decades faced their tormentor in the Sydney District Court on Monday, the 79-year-old sat motionless in his chair, one hand resting on his face.
The Catholic priest is facing a certain jail term after a jury found him guilty of rape and seven counts of indecent assault against the three women, when they were aged between 10 and 17 in the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
One woman, who can’t be named for legal reasons, described how she kept the abuse secret for 50 years after initially confiding in a nun who then flogged her, forced her to drink castor oil and made her clean up her own vomit.
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