Australian sentenced to 129 years in Philippine child sex abuse case

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Manila (AFP) – An Australian man has been 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 on 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.

More details in Thursday’s Borneo Bulletin.