AUSTRALIA
The Australian
Dan Box
From:The Australian
August 30, 2012
A FORMER senior cleric in the NSW Hunter Valley has been charged with sexual abuse and failing to disclose alleged abuse by another priest.
It is thought to be the first time a member of the Australian Catholic clergy has been charged with failing to report the alleged child sex offences of another priest to police.
Father Thomas Brennan, 74, was charged this morning with two counts of misprision of a felony, or failing to disclose a serious crime, relating to alleged child sex offences at a school during the late 1970s.
Father Brennan, who was a school principal at the time of these alleged offences, was also charged with 10 counts of sexually assaulting a young boy in the early 1980s, when he was a parish priest.
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