AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
JOANNE MCCARTHY
11 Jul, 2012
DEFROCKED Maitland-Newcastle diocese Catholic priest John Sidney Denham has been charged with 10 fresh child sex assault offences from the 1970s.
Denham declined to appear on an audio visual link from Goulburn Jail today where he is in custody, Newcastle Local Court magistrate Ian Cheetham was told.
He has been charged with 10 offences against two boys, aged 12, at St Pius X High School, Adamstown, in 1977, including three charges of buggery, and seven charges of indecent assault.
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