AUSTRALIA
The New Daily
JAMES FERNYHOUGH Money Editor
A prolific paedophile priest has been jailed for his “sadistic” and “depraved” abuse of boys.
A paedophile priest who abused a “staggering” number of boys has been sentenced to 13 years in prison in a Sydney court today.
John Sidney Denham, 73, who treated schools as a “paedophilic smorgasbord”, had already been jailed for at least 14 years in 2010 for his “sadistic” sexual assault of boys as young as five.
But on Friday Judge Helen Syme sentenced him to at least another 13 years for the abuse of another 18 boys, describing his crimes as some of the worst the courts have ever seen.
“As the crown rhetorically asks, `How much worse does it get?’” she stated.
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