NSW priest charged over abuse

7 News
March 4, 2014

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A Catholic priest has been charged with child abuse allegedly committed at a church-run Bathurst high school in the 1970s and 1980s.

The 61-year-old is the eleventh priest or former priest to be charged over historic child abuse at the St Stanislaus secondary college dating back to 1960.

He was arrested at his northern Sydney home on Tuesday and charged with 14 counts of aggravated indecent assault, police said.

It's alleged he abused two boys at the church-run school between 1975 and 1982.

He was granted conditional bail and is due before Burwood Local Court on April 23.

In January, a 71-year-old former Catholic priest was charged over the sexual abuse of at least two boys at the same Bathurst school.

He was hit with 10 counts of aggravated indecent assault on a male for allegedly sexually abusing two boys, both under 16, from 1974 to 1977.

He was granted conditional bail and is due before Burwood Local Court on March 18.

Police also said on Tuesday that they charged a retired priest with historical sex offences on Friday, following a two-year investigation into alleged sex assaults on a boy in Sydney's west.

The 73-year-old was charged with three counts of aggravated indecency after he allegedly sexually assaulted the boy between 1984 and 1991 while working at a church in St Mary's.

He was granted conditional bail to appear in Tweed Heads Local Court on March 24.