Former Priest Faces Armidale Court Again

By Catherine Clifford
ABC News
March 22, 2013

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A court has continued its suppression order on the identity of a former priest charged with 35 historical child sex abuse offences.

At Armidale Local Court, Magistrate Karen Stafford was informed a brief of evidence has been served on the accused, an ex-priest from Armidale.

In January, detectives from the Sex Crimes Squad and New England Local Area Command charged the 59-year-old with 35 offences relating to alleged sexual assaults in the 1980s on six alter boys from the Moree and Armidale dioceses.

Magistrate Stafford adjourned the matter to May 8.

No plea was entered and bail was continued.

The court's also continued its ban on naming the priest to protect the identity of his alleged victims.