AUSTRALIA
Broken Rites
Father Glenn Humphreys, aged 61, a member of the Australia-wide Catholic order of Vincentian Fathers, has been convicted by a jury in Western Australia for sexual abuse committed in that state. Father Humphreys has also ministered in other parts of Australia, including St Stanislaus College in Bathurst NSW. In the W.A. court documents, his current address was given as Marsfield in Sydney.
On 21 August 2014, Father Humphreys was found guilty of sexually abusing a teenage boy on church property in Western Australia 30 years ago. Humphreys was charged with abusing the teenager between 1983 and 1986 while he was assistant priest at a church in Perth.
After six hours of deliberation, a W.A. District Court jury convicted Humphreys of four counts of unlawful and indecent assault.
The court was told Humphreys had assaulted the boy in the church’s presbytery and in a bathroom at a nearby primary school.
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