Priest Gets 10 Years in 1970s Abuse Case
From Times Wire Reports
A Georgia priest who admitted sexually abusing two brothers while a student at a Washington seminary in the 1970s was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Father Wayland Brown was sentenced three months after his guilty plea to battery and abuse. The boys were 12 and 13 when the abuse began in 1974 at their Gaithersburg home.
A pre-sentencing memorandum painted Brown as a serial molester who abused several boys throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
Brown was removed from a post in Savannah, Ga., in 1988.
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