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'You used your position as a priest and abused the position of trust you were placed in to take advantage of those vulnerable children and I find that aggravating,' Judge Gary Massey said.
The judge said the former priest's old age did not much mitigate his sentence because he had spent 50 years in the community while his victims suffered.
'I consider in this case your advanced age is of only limited mitigation ... because you've had more than 50 years in the community since the commission of the first offences, whereas the victims have had to live with the consequences of your offending for all that period.'