Wednesday, October 05, 2016

Priest jailed for 18 years for sexually abusing 12 Victorian children...

A Catholic priest who sexually abused 12 Victorian children over decades in a “shameful and protracted abuse of his authority” has been jailed for 18 years and four months – with a minimum of 13 years and four months.

Robert Patrick Claffey, 73, attacked a seven-year-old girl who was preparing for her first communion in 1969 in the first of “a truly appalling litany of offending” during which he exploited his position of trust.

Claffey went on to assault altar boys and children making preparations for religious ceremonies until 1992.

He used the excuse of providing pastoral care to one victim – whose brother had died – before he indecently assaulted the boy in his home. Full story...

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