Another Priest to Face Child Abuse Charges

By Rick Morton
The Australian
January 10, 2013

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/another-priest-to-face-child-abuse-charges/story-e6frg6nf-1226551282109

A CATHOLIC priest has been charged with eight counts of indecently assaulting two boys in the 1960s in a police investigation that has already charged six other priests with child sexual offences in the Hunter Valley region of NSW.

The 83-year-old Glenbrook man was served with court attendance notices through his legal representative, based in Penrith, about noon yesterday.

Police will allege he indecently assaulted two boys younger than 16 on eight occasions while he was teaching at a school in Hamilton in the "early to mid 1960s".

He is due to appear in Newcastle Local Court on February 23.

Strike Force Georgiana was established in March 2008 to investigate allegations of abuse by various Catholic church members in the Newcastle region.

To date, seven priests and two others connected with the church have been charged.

Earlier this month, a clergyman was charged with trying to conceal the sexual abuse of a child by a fellow clergyman. He was only the second man in Australia history to be so charged.

The 81-year-old will appear in the same court on January 29.