Paedophile priest pleads guilty again

By Nick Mclaren
ABC News
May 24, 2016

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-24/paedophile-priest-pleads-guilty-again/7440956

Former Catholic priest Peter Lewis Comensoli, aged 77 (on left) leaves Wollongong Court May 25, 2016 after pleading guilty to three indecent assault charges relating to young boys in the late 1960s

A former Wollongong Catholic priest has pleaded guilty to three historic child sex offences.

Peter Lewis Comensoli, aged 77, wore a hearing aid and appeared hunched as he stood in Wollongong District Court today.

The court heard the charges stem from sexual assaults that occurred on teenage boys between 1966 and 1968 at Shellharbour in the Illawarra, and Ingleburn in Sydney.

The crimes involved three separate boys, who can't be named.

It's not the first time the paedophile priest has pleaded guilty to such crimes.

He was jailed for two years in 1994 after pleading guilty to the indecent assault of teenage altar boys.

Comensoli was defrocked by the church in 1984 and continues to live in New South Wales as a condition of his ongoing bail.

He is also not allowed to apply for a passport or go near an airport.

Comensoli is due to reappear in Wollongong District Court for a sentencing hearing on Friday, August 12.