Former Catholic Priest sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexually assaulting 2 minors

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Beaufort, S.C. (WOLO) – A former Catholic Priest is being sent to jail for sexually assaulting two boys enrolled in his church’s school in the 1970s and 1980s.

Seventy-six-year-old Wayland Brown was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to nine charges of criminal sexual conduct with a minor.

Both victims attended St. James Catholic School in Savannah where Brown worked, and were between 11 and 13 at the time. The incidents for which Brown was charged took place in Jasper County between 1978 and 1988.

The assaults were reported to law enforcement about two decades after they occurred, but South Carolina has no statute of limitation for felonies.

Fourteenth Circuit Solicitor Duffie Stone prosecuted the case and told a judge that Brown wore his priest’s collar during the assaults and prayed the rosary afterwards.

Brown previously spent ten years in a Maryland prison after pleading guilty to performing sex acts on another minor and his younger brother in the 70’s.