''KNOW that I will always love you,'' Father Brian Spillane wrote to a girl he is accused of indecently assaulting the day after the death of her best friend in a car crash.
He denies the assault, which is said to have taken place in his car after he had said a home Mass for the distraught 17-year-old's friends and family in 1981.
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The former priest denied any ulterior motive behind inviting eight- to 12-year-old children to sit on his knee in confession.
''It was my pastoral approach, to break down the barrier between the fearful God and the loving God.''
Sydney Morning Herald
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