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	Former SA Priest Faces Child-Sex Extradition The Advertiser April 17, 2008 http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23557198-2682,00.html AN INDONESIAN court has heard details of pedophile allegations levelled against a former South Australian priest who is facing extradition to Adelaide. During a hearing today in South Jakarta District Court, prosecutors told how Australian authorities had requested that they arrest and extradite the man, aged in his sixties, who cannot be named for legal reasons. They said he was wanted on charges of illegal sexual acts with six boys aged under 17, which allegedly occurred between 1977 and 1994 in SA. The extradition note, read to the court, included allegations of abuse of two brothers at their family home. The man, who lives in Jakarta, told the court that he had been in Indonesia since 1996. Prosecutor Sigid Pribadi said that in May last year, Australian authorities had made a request for for the man to be arrested. Police found him on February 20 this year and he has been in custody since. Lawyer Bernard Tifaona said his client denied the allegations. The case resumes on Monday.
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