AUSTRALIA
Northern Star
A CATHOLIC priest working as a police chaplain will face court today over child sex offences alleged to have happened when he was working in the Lismore diocese in the 1980s.
In a statement, NSW Police say detectives from the Richmond Local Area Command have been investigating the priest since February after evidence raised in the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse.
The commission is ongoing and is still accepting submissions from victims who were abused as children at or via institutions such as churches, schools, or sports clubs.
Detectives arrested the former Lismore priest on Thursday and charged him with nine offences at the Kempsey Police Station.
He was refused bail and will appear before Kempsey Local Court today (Friday July 10, 2015).
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