AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
By JOANNE McCARTHY
Jan. 4, 2013
A HUNTER priest who retired more than 15 years ago has become the second Catholic priest in Australia charged with concealing child sex crimes.
Father Lewis Fenton, 81, of Eleebana, was charged at Charlestown police station on Friday morning in relation to offences committed by a Hunter man against children in the mid-1980s.
Father Fenton was charged only four months after retired Hunter priest Tom Brennan made international news as the first Australian Catholic priest to face charges of concealing another priest’s sex crimes against children in the 1970s.
Father Brennan died of cancer six weeks later, and before the matter was heard in court.
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