DILI (Reuters) - A court in East Timor jailed a defrocked American priest for 12 years on Tuesday, his lawyer said, after he was charged with sexually abusing more than a dozen girls over decades.
The case was the first time that allegations of sexual abuse perpetrated by a priest have gone to trial in the staunchly Catholic country.
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