Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Newcastle, NSW, Australia · 2019

Australia: priest Vincent Ryan convicted in four rounds of abusing altar boys

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Catholic parish priest

Organization

Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle

Spiritual nexus

The victims were altar boys serving under the priest in his own parishes — the liturgical role placed them in his charge.

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2019-05-22 · convictions in 1996, 1997, 2016 and 2019

NSW courts, Australia. Vincent Ryan was convicted on 23 May 1996 (six years), on 24 September 1997 on a guilty plea to 53 offences (16 years 6 months), on 14 October 2016 (suspended sentence), and on 22 May 2019 of indecent assault of altar boys (3 years 3 months, 14-month non-parole). He abused at least 37 children, mostly altar boys, and died in 2022.

Primary record

national newspaper court reporting sentencing report "'Monster of Merewether' goes back to jail for another three years and three months", Newcastle Herald, 22 May 2019.: Reports the 2019 conviction and the cumulative history across all four rounds.

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