AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
A DEFROCKED Catholic priest who was jailed in 2010 for child sex offences against 39 boys allegedly sexually assaulted another 14 boys in the 1970s and 1980s, police alleged yesterday in a facts sheet in Newcastle Local Court.
Former Maitland-Newcastle priest John Sidney Denham, 70, allegedly told one victim in 1977, ‘‘You loved it. You wanted it. You want more and more’’, after a sexual assault that left the boy, 12, ‘‘bleeding heavily’’, police alleged.
The boy did not complain to his parents about alleged repeated sexual assaults at St Pius X School, Adamstown, because he came from a violent home where alcohol was abused.
When the boy allegedly told principal Father Tom Brennan, who died late last year, he was caned.
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