An ex-priest faces a trial re St Stanislaus College, Bathurst, NSW

Broken Rites
July 7, 2014

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A former Catholic priest has been committed to stand trial in the Sydney District Court on 10 counts of indecently assaulting a male. The order, involving former priest Peter John Ryan, 71, now living in western Sydney, was made on 30 June 2014 by a magistrates court. The alleged victim was a student of St Stanislaus College boys' school, New South Wales.

The magistrate, in Bathurst Local Court,  placed Ryan on a list for a preliminary procedure, to be held soon with a judge in Sydney's Downing Centre District Court. The Sydney judge would then schedule the Ryan case for subsequent steps in the prosecution process, probably months later.

The Bathurst magistrate authoritesed Ryan to remain on bail. The bail conditions include Ryan reporting to a particular Sydney police station twice a week. He is banned from approaching or contacting the alleged victim and any prosecution witnesses.

Ryan was charged earlier in 2014 by police officers attached to Strike Force Belle, which was established in 2008 to investigate allegations regarding St Stanislaus’ College at Bathurst, 200 kilometres west of Sydney, in the 1970s and 1980s.

St Stanislaus College was operated by an institute of Catholic priests and brothers, called the Vincentians (or the Congregation of the Mission).