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	Alleged Sex Offenders to Face Court Today Western Advocate September 15, 2008 http://bathurst.yourguide.com.au/news/local/news/general/alleged-sex-offenders-to-face-court-today/1272234.aspx A FORMER president of St Stanislaus' College and former teaching priest and brother will answer a total of 125 charges in Bathurst Local Court today. The charges relate to alleged sexual assaults on students at the school more than 20 years ago. All three of the men charged were members of the Vincentian Order on the staff at the college in the 1970s and 1980s. The former president and brother now a priest, Peter William Dwyer, 65, of Armidale, former priest Brian Joseph Spillane, 65 of Riverwood and former brother John Francis Gaven, 66, of Marsfield All had charges laid against them by special Chifley Command Strike Force Belle. They were charged by the strike force formed by Chifley Command with NSW Crime Command Sydney, established to investigate an alleged paedophile ring at St Stanislaus'. Spillane was the first of the three charged on 33 sexual assault counts related to five students. He appeared before Bathurst Local Court in mid-July. Earlier this month, Spillane had an additional 60 charges laid against him alleging sexual assault of another eight victims, a total of 93 charges related to 13 former students. The original charges against Spillane related to alleged homosexual intercourse between a teacher and pupils aged 11, 12 and 13 years of age and allegedly inciting males to commit acts of gross indecency. Some offences allegedly relate to an 11-year-old between March and May 1986, others to a 12-year-old between March and November 1986 and a 13-year-old in March and between June and July, 1986. The charges allege that Spillane, the former school chaplain and teacher, committed sexual assaults late at night and early in the morning. Former bursar, Brother Gaven, is facing 28 charges alleging homosexual intercourse with males between 10 and 16 years and 10-18 years, gross acts of indecency male on male under 18 years, homosexual intercourse with males 10-18 under authority and by a teacher, acts of indecency male with male and indecent assault on a male person. The former college president, former brother Peter Dwyer who is now a priest, has been charged with four offences the details of which have not yet been revealed by police.
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