AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
By JOANNE MCCARTHY Aug. 1, 2013
ONE of Australia’s worst paedophile priests pleaded guilty yesterday to multiple child sex offences at a Hunter Catholic school as victims’ statements reduced people to tears at a historic inquiry into child sexual abuse.
John Sidney Denham, 70, pleaded guilty to 25 child sex charges involving 18 boys at Singleton, Wingham and St Pius X School, Adamstown, in the 1970s, and accepted another 23 indecent assault charges had occurred.
The 25 offences, including buggery, forced oral sex and indecent assault, were committed against boys aged 11, 12 and 13.
The guilty pleas came three years after Denham pleaded guilty to crimes against 39 boys in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, and 13 years after his first child sex conviction.
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