AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
JOANNE MCCARTHY
24 May, 2012
A CATHOLIC priest has denied being sexually aroused by wrestling bouts with young boys, telling a court any contact between his face and a boy’s testicles was unintended.
It was “simply part of the wrestling”, the priest said yesterday as his trial on eight sexual abuse charges involving four boys entered its third week.
The priest, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, has pleaded not guilty to the charges, including indecently assaulting the four boys and unlawfully detaining one of them at a Hunter location for a short period during an alleged indecent assault.
The priest denied wrestling the boys on concrete in a playing field, and in churches and rooms on Catholic properties.
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