ABC News
October 1, 2008
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/01/2379076.htm
A Sydney Catholic priest stands accused of sexually abusing more than 31 boys after another 13 alleged victims came forward.
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| Catholic priest John Sidney Denham is accused of sexually abusing 31 boys. |
Sixty-five-year-old John Sidney Denham was charged with 30 child sex offences dating back to the 1970s in August, relating to 18 alleged victims aged 11 to 17.
A further 37 charges were laid today, bringing the total number of alleged victims to 31.
Most were former students of Newcastle's St Pius X Catholic High School.
The charges arose from an initial single complaint made in April.
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| St Pius X High School in Adamstown, Newcastle |
The alleged offences occurred in Adamstown, Pokolbin and Charlestown in the Hunter Valley, Taree and Granville in Sydney.
The 67 charges include soliciting or inciting a male to commit an indecent act and sexual assault.
Denham was a member of the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic Diocese before relocating to Sydney, where he was on restricted duties working as a librarian at a theological college.
The case has been adjourned to next month.
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