A FORMER Catholic priest has been jailed for at least five years for sexually abusing girls as young as eight. Brian Spillane, 69, was convicted today of eight charges of
indecent assault on a female younger than 16 and one count of indecently
assaulting a female aged 16 years or more.
The charges relate to
abuses during the 1970s and 1980s when Spillane was a priest working in
both Sydney and country areas of New South Wales. In sentencing Spillane, Judge Michael Finnane called each assault "serious, planned and callous".