Catholic Priest Arrested and Charged with Sex Offences in Bathurst

By Janet Fife-Yeomans
Telegraph
January 23, 2014

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/catholic-priest-arrested-and-charged-with-sex-offences-in-bathurst/story-fni0cx12-1226808873234

POLICE investigating a paedophile ring at two boarding schools in Bathurst have today arrested and charged a former Catholic priest.

At least 11 men, most of them Catholic priests, have already been charged with child sex offences against students at St Stanislaus' College and All Saints College dating back to the 1960s as part of investigations by Strike Force Belle.

The 71-year-old man was arrested by strike force investigators today at a residence in Newington and taken to Auburn Police Station. He was charged with ten counts of aggravated indecent assault on males which relate to the alleged sexual assault of a student between 1974 and 1977.

He was conditionally bailed to appear at the Burwood Local Court in on Tuesday 18 March 2014.