AUSTRALIA
Courier Mail
SHANNON DEERY
HERALD SUN JUNE 27, 2013
HIGH-profile priest Fatherr Bob Maguire has been drawn into the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse crisis after it was alleged an altar boy from one of his former parishes was the victim of abuse.
The 11-year-old was an altar boy where Fr Maguire was stationed in the early 1970s and says he was abused by another priest after doing odd jobs at his home for pocket money.
The alleged abuse did not happen at the parish church or home where Fr Maguire lived. There have been no allegations levelled at Fr Maguire.
A retired priest in his 80s, who cannot be named for legal reasons, on Wednesday was committed to stand trial in the County Court over the allegations.
Fr Maguire last night told the Herald Sun he was rocked by the allegations levelled at a man he had known since the 1960s.
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