AUSTRALIA
Byron Shire News
Jessica Grewal | 30th August 2012
AN ELDERLY Catholic priest has been charged over a series of historic child sex offences spanning two decades.
The 74-year-old is accused of failing to report repeated allegations of sexual abuse by another priest while he was the principal of an Adamstown high school in the late 70s and assaulting several boys at a Sydney church during the 80s.
He was arrested at Charlestown on Thursday morning and charged with 15 related offences.
He will front a Newcastle court on September 24.
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