age of 18; and was later sentenced to a total of 15 months jail. Brian Joseph Spillane also was convicted on 30 November 2010 on nine counts of indecent assault against three girls aged between eight and seventeen while he was based in Sydney in about 1979, a Vincentian priest at that time. During bail proceedings it was heard that Spillane faced a further 135 charges relating to alleged offences against boys at St Stanislaus' College whilst Spillaine was chaplain. After a court-ordered media blackout was lifted, in place since 2013, it was reported in 2016 that Spillane was convicted of assaults on five St Stanislaus' College students after a trial in 2013, and in 2015 he pleaded guilty to assaults on four boys at the school in the late 1980s. It was reported that during 2016 Spillane was convicted of attacks on five students between 1974 and 1990. Spillane, who is currently in custody, is expected to be sentenced in early 2017. See also Catholicism in Australia Roman Catholic Diocese of Bathurst in Canada Anglican Diocese of Bathurst References External links GigaCatholic, with incumbent biographies Bathurst Bathurst, Roman Catholic Diocese of Bathurst Bathurst Bathurst Bathurst