Priest gets six years for raping minors

(ANSA) - Novara, April 8 - An Italian priest got six years in jail Tuesday for raping minors.
    Father Marco Rasia was found guilty of sexually abusing at least six 16-year-old boys in 2000 when he was a parish priest near the border with Switzerland.
    He continued to rape them even after he was transferred to a nearby parish, a judge found.
    Father Rasia claimed the sex was consensual.
    He said at least one case was part of a loving relationship.