AUSTRALIA
Farm Weekl
LEESHA MCKENNY
18 Oct, 2012 08:11 AM
A former NSW priest who allegedly told three senior Catholic clergy a decade ago that he had repeatedly sexually abused altar boys has been arrested in Armidale for historic offences against girls.
Detectives arrested the man known as Father F in the state’s New England region today in relation to a number of child-sex offences against three female children in the 1970s and 1980s.
The State Crime Command’s sex crimes squad set up Strike Force Glenroe in July to investigate allegations of that Father F had abused altar boys while a priest based in Armidale and Parramatta.
Father F, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was removed from public ministry after a meeting with three clergy in 1992, following continued allegations of abuse after he was moved from the Armidale diocese to Parramatta.
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