AUSTRALIA
The Daily Telegraph
Neil Keene
The Daily Telegraph
January 05, 2013
A RETIRED Catholic priest allegedly concealed his knowledge about the repeated sexual assault of a nine-year-old boy for more than 20 years.
Police from Strike Force Georgiana charged the 81-year-old yesterday morning after a seven-month investigation. They allege he failed to disclose serious child sex offences by another man on a nine-year-old boy between 1982 and 1984 at Port Stephens and a beach in Newcastle.
The priest, who worked in the Maitland-Newcastle diocese from the 1970s to the 1990s, was charged with being an accessory before the fact to the indecent assault of a child and failing to inform police about a crime.
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