AUSTRALIA
ABC Newcastle
Updated August 30, 2012
In what is believed to be an Australian first, a Hunter Valley Catholic priest has been charged with failing to report the alleged child sex offences of another priest.
Toronto Catholic priest Tom Brennan, 74, has been charged with 14 offences.
They include sexually assaulting a boy while he was a priest at Waratah in the 1980s as well as common assault and performing acts of indecency at the same church.
But the ABC has been told some of the charges – understood to be a first for Australia – relate to Brennan’s alleged actions in relation to defrocked former priest John Sidney Denham.
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