AUSTRALIA
Australian Associated Press via Yahoo News
February 18, 2021
An elderly former priest has been granted bail after being charged with the historical sexual assault of a nine-year-old boy at a school at Bathurst, in central western NSW.
Robert Maximus Blumenthal, 85, is charged with two counts of sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 10 and three counts of sexual intercourse with a person between 10 and under 16 who was under authority.
After his arrest at a Sydney home on Thursday, he appeared in Waverley Local Court.
He was granted $10,000 bail with other conditions including he not contact or go near any prosecution witness or enter any point of departure from Australia.
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