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	Priests and Teacher Arrested over Abuse By Angus Hohenboken The Australian September 4, 2008 http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24289636-5006784,00.html A former priest from St Stanislaus College in Bathurst, west of Sydney, faces 93 charges relating to the alleged attacks, which date back to the 1970s. Brian Spillane, 65, from Narwee in Sydney, was charged in May with 33 offences, and on Tuesday night a further 60 charges were laid. Two other priests who had served at the college and a lay teacher from Bathurst's Anglican All Saints College were arrested yesterday. Vincentian brother John Gaven, 66, of Marsfield, in Sydney's northwest, faces 28 charges for sexual offences. An Armidale priest, 65, was charged with four sex offences. Brother Gaven, Mr Spillane and the Armidale priest were granted bail to appear at Bathurst Local Court on September 15. A 63-year-old former teacher at the Anglican All Saints College was charged with three counts of indecent assault. The Russell Island man was granted bail to appear at Bathurst Local Court on November 17.
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