Catholic Priest Charged with New Child Sex Offences

By Joanne McCarthy
Newcastle Herald
July 11, 2012

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JOHN SIDNEY DENHAM

DEFROCKED Maitland-Newcastle diocese Catholic priest John Sidney Denham has been charged with 10 fresh child sex assault offences from the 1970s.

Denham declined to appear on an audio visual link from Goulburn Jail today where he is in custody, Newcastle Local Court magistrate Ian Cheetham was told.

He has been charged with 10 offences against two boys, aged 12, at St Pius X High School, Adamstown, in 1977, including three charges of buggery, and seven charges of indecent assault.

Denham is also charged with more than 30 other offences against another 12 schoolboys in the 1970s.

He has not entered pleas to any of the charges.

The matter has been adjourned until August.