AUSTRALIA
Illawarra Mercury
By BREE FULLER March 10, 2015
A former Holy Spirit College priest has been arrested after claims of abuse in the 1980s.
Father Patrick Kervin, 58, was arrested in Sydney on Monday afternoon and charged with one count of indecent assault.
Police allege the Catholic priest assaulted a 15-year-old boy while he was a chaplain at the Bellambi school in mid-1988.
Catholic Diocese of Wollongong director of schools Peter Turner said on Tuesday he was ‘‘deeply saddened’’ to hear of an alleged historical assault in one of the region’s Catholic schools.
‘‘The Catholic Education Office has been co-operating fully with the police and will continue to assist as needed to help bring this matter to a just resolution,’’ Mr Turner said.
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