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A Nigerian-born Catholic priest, Anthony Odiong, has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Texas, United States, for sexually assaulting women under his spiritual care.
Mr Odiong, a naturalised US citizen, was earlier convicted by a jury on 29 May in Texas after he was found guilty on one count of first-degree sexual assault and two counts of second-degree sexual assault after a trial in Waco, Texas.
The jailed cleric was originally from Akwa Ibom State, South-south Nigeria, where he was ordained in 1993 and later served in Catholic parishes in Texas
