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Elizabeth Byrne
March 31, 2015
The trial of a former priest on charges of molesting a girl in the 1990s in Canberra has heard the man admitted in a police interview to touching the girl, but that the incidents were not of a sexual nature.
Edward Evans, 85, is facing six charges of committing acts of indecency against the girl when she was aged between 10 and 13.
Most of the allegations relate to incidents in his house, often when other people were nearby.
Evans is alleged to have touched the girl inappropriately several times, including when he was sitting beside her at a dining table.
The alleged victim head earlier 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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