AUSTRALIA
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Pedophile priest John Sidney Denham will spend at least 19 years and five months in jail after being sentenced for systematically abusing dozens of vulnerable boys.
Denham, 73, had already been jailed for at least 14 years in 2010 for his “sadistic” sexual assault of boys as young as five.
But today 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.
Judge Syme said he treated St Pius X as “his own pedophilic smorgasbord”, with dozens having complained of abuse over four-and-a-half years at the school.
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