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ABC News
A court has been told a New South Wales Catholic priest charged with covering up sex abuse is terminally ill.
Today was to be Father Tom Brennan’s first appearance in court after being charged with covering up buggery and indecent assault offences by a defrocked Hunter Valley priest in the 1970s.
The charges stem from Brennan’s time as a principal at a Newcastle Catholic high school.
He is also charged with assaulting an eight or nine-year-old boy.
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