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	Australian Paper Claims Gozitan Priest Refusing to Return to Face Accuser Malta Independent June 4, 2011 http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=126542 Father Joseph Sultana who relocated from the Australian Cairns diocese to Gozo in the late 1990s after allegations of misconduct that the Catholic Church deemed "inappropriate" for a priest, has refused to return to Australia to face his accuser, Australian online newspaper The Cairns Post reported yesterday. A decade after Father Sultana left the Far North, the Cairns man, a former Atherton altar boy, lodged a lawsuit against the Catholic Church in the Supreme Court, claiming he was regularly abused by Father Sultana while he was a student and altar boy at St Joseph's School and Church, Atherton, between March 1979 and November 1982, the newspaper reported. At the time the court case was lodged in October last year, The Cairns Post was told by local Church representatives that they did not know if Father Sultana was still alive, however, he was eventually tracked down to his current residence in Gozo. The case against the Catholic Church is being prepared by Dean and Bolton Solicitors, with medical reports being collated before both parties enter into a compulsory conciliation process.
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