RETIRED Nsw Priest Faces More Sex Charges

9 News
September 13, 2012

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8532252

A retired Catholic priest accused of sexually assaulting four children over two decades has been charged with three more offences that allegedly occurred 10 years earlier.

Finian James Egan, 77, has been charged with indecently assaulting a girl in Leichhardt, in Sydney's inner west, on three occasions between 1961 and 1962, Downing Centre Local Court heard on Thursday.

Egan was charged in May this year with 17 sexual offences that allegedly occurred between 1972 and 1987 while he was serving as a priest in parishes in Sydney and on the NSW Central Coast.

He has not entered a plea to those charges, which relate to one boy and three girls.

Egan was not required to appear in court on Thursday and the matter was adjourned until November 8.