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8 October 2016

Paedophile priest known as the 'tickle monster' jailed for 18 years after he groomed children and 'treated them as object

A priest known as the 'tickle monster' will spend the next 18 years in jail after he was convicted of sexually assaulting dozens of children from the 1960s to early 1990s.
Robert Patrick Claffey, a former priest of the Ballarat diocese in Victoria's west, used his position of power as a religious figure to abuse children over the three decades.