Retired Irish priest found guilty of sex assaults against girls in Australia

A retired Irish priest has been found guilty of a string of horrific sex assaults against young girls in Australia over the course of three decades.

Finian Egan was yesterday convicted of raping one girl and indecently assaulting seven others while working as a priest and youth worker in multiple dioceses around Sydney between 1961 and 1987. His victims were aged between 10-17 years.

According to Australia’s ABC News, a complaint from one of the 78-year-old’s victims was upheld by the Church in 2009, yet it not only subsequently celebrated his career in a Mass just weeks later, but also approved his travel to Ireland to do the same, failing to tell Church authorities here about the alleged abuse.