AUSTRALIA
Border Mail
By BEVAN SHIELDS Oct. 18, 2012
A FORMER Catholic priest arrested this morning has been charged with 25 serious sexual crimes against three girls, one as young as five.
The 59-year-old man appeared in court this afternoon after officers from Strike Force Glenroe apprehended him in an early-morning operation at his home in Armidale, in northern NSW, today. He was refused bail.
Police allege the man sexually abused three girls in the 1970s and 1980s. The charges include indecent assault, acts of indecency and sexual intercourse without consent. The girls were aged between 5 and 18 years old when the alleged crimes were committed.
The trio contacted police earlier this year, the commander of the NSW Police Sex Crimes Squad, Detective Superintendent John Kerlatec, told reporters in Sydney today.
He would not say if the alleged victims were related to the former priest, or to each other.
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