AUSTRALIA
ABC Newscastle

Updated July 11, 2012

Ten additional child sex charges have been laid against a defrocked Hunter Valley priest in Newcastle Local court.

69 year old John Sidney Denham is already serving a lengthy jail term for sexually abusing 39 boys in Newcastle, Sydney and Taree.

The former Catholic Priest declined to appear by video-link in Newcastle local court from Goulburn jail.

He has been charged with another 10 sex offences against two boys.