86-year-old pedophile priest loses Australian court appeal

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By ROD McGUIRK

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An 86-year-old pedophile former Catholic priest came a step closer to deportation to Ireland when a court on Friday upheld a decision to strip him of his Australian citizenship.

Finian Egan has been fighting a five-year legal battle against former Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton’s decision to cancel his citizenship over the defrocked priest’s criminal record.

Egan initially won an appeal in 2016 in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, a court that reviews government decisions.

But the Federal Court overturned that decision and a second tribunal hearing last year upheld Dutton’s action.



In this Oct. 14, 2013, photo, Catholic priest Finian Egan leaves the Downing Centre District Court in Sydney. Egan, an 86-year-old pedophile former Catholic priest, came a step closer to deportation to Ireland when a court on Friday, May 28, 2021, upheld a decision to strip him of his Australian citizenship. (Paul Miller/AAP Image via AP)


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[secondwind]

1. Why isn't this POS in jail???

[csziggy]

2. He was sentenced to eight years

According to the article in the OP:

He was convicted in New South Wales state in 2013 of sexually abusing three girls between 1961 and 1987. Egan was 79 when he was sentenced to eight years in prison.

He attempted to avoid deportation by applying to the Irish government in 2016 to renounce his Irish citizenship. He approached Ireland five months after Dutton canceled his Australian citizenship.

[MrModerate]

3. Now if they can just go after cardinal Pell...

…Who managed to slip the bonds of justice.

[twodogsbarking]

4. If the other altar boy doesn't show

then go home. Don't serve mass alone with the priest.
Catholic education.