Police may go after the clergymen who hid abuse

Police are considering charges against Catholic priests involved in hiding Alan Woodcock's nine years of sexual abuse against schoolboys and young men. Woodcock, 56, a former Marist priest, teacher and counsellor, was yesterday sent to jail for seven years for 21 sex offences committed between 1978 and 1987.
Judge Bridget Mackintosh, sitting in the Wellington District Court, noted that Woodcock would have faced a much stiffer sentence than the 10-year maximum available had the crimes occurred under present law.

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