Notorious paedophile priest given just 15-month suspended sentence despite horrific sex acts against a 13-year-old boy – as judge says his offences were at ‘the lower end of criminality’

AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail

By NELSON GROOM FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

Infamous paedophile priest Vincent Gerard Ryan has gotten off with a suspended sentence for the sickening sexual abuse of a boy, 13, in the 1980s.

The disgraced Catholic priest forced his penis into the victim’s mouth, masturbated him and attempted to sexually penetrate him in a church in Gresford, in the Hunter Region of NSW.

Ryan, who has already served 15 years jail for abusing dozens of schoolboys, was on Friday handed a 15-month suspended sentence in the Darlinghurst Courthouse, reports ABC.

The court heard his victim for this case was an altar boy aged between 13 and 15 during the abuse.

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