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Elizabeth Byrne
March 25, 2015
An 85-year-old former priest has gone on trial in Canberra charged with molesting a young girl in the 1990s.
Edward Evans is facing six charges of committing acts of indecency against the girl, who was aged between 10 and 13 at the time.
Most of the incidents are alleged to have happened in Evans’s house, where the girl’s family would sometimes go after church.
Evans is alleged to have touched the girl inappropriately several times, including when he was sitting beside her at the dining table.
The alleged victim told the court that during the first incident Evans allegedly put his hand inside her pants when other people were nearby.
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