Australian gets 129 years for child abuse

By Agence France-Presse

Nov 10, 2022 12:02 am

(UPDATE) AN Australian man was sentenced to 129 years in a Philippine jail as part of a child sexual abuse case involving victims as young as 18 months, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

It was the second conviction for Peter Gerard Scully, who is already serving a life sentence for an initial batch of charges involving the rape and trafficking of girls.

This file photo taken on June 16, 2015 shows Peter Scully of Australia (right), accused of raping and trafficking two girls in the Philippines, leaving the court handcuffed to another inmate after his arraignment in Cagayan de Oro City, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. AFP PHOTO

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