AUSTRALIA
Sky News
An elderly Catholic priest has been charged with committing and covering up child sex offences near Newcastle in the 1970s and 80s.
The 74-year-old man went to Charlestown Police Station where he was arrested on Thursday morning.
He has been charged with 14 offences committed at a high school at Adamstown where he was principal in the 1970s and at a church at Waratah in the 1980s.
The school-related crimes include one count of buggery, relating to his alleged failure to report sexual abuse by another priest of a child at the school in 1978.
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