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	Priest's Future Uncertain after Sex Charges Dropped ABC News December 4, 2009 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/04/2762177.htm AUSTRALIA--It is unclear if a Hunter Valley Catholic priest will work again, after multiple child sex charges were dropped against him in Newcastle Local Court. After a two-year police investigation into child sex allegations, the Director of Public Prosecutions yesterday withdrew 22 child sex offences against Father Peter Julian Brock. It had been alleged Father Brock assaulted two young boys in his former presbytery in the 1970s. He says he is relieved the charges have been dropped. "I'm now looking forward to a good holiday but that's all I intend to say at this stage," he said. But the Catholic Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, Michael Malone, says the withdrawal of charges does not mean the matter is over. He says the Catholic Church's Child Protection Unit is legally obliged to conduct its own investigation into the matter.
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