AUSTRALIA
7 News
ABC
Updated January 29, 2013
A retired Hunter Valley Catholic priest has faced Newcastle Local Court for the first time after being charged over the alleged cover-up of child sexual abuse.
Lewis Dominic Fenton was charged on January 4, becoming the second Australian to be charged with a child sex cover-up.
The 81-year-old is accused of concealing two alleged offences committed by another Hunter Valley man against a nine-year-old boy.
The offences are alleged to have occurred between 1982 and 1984 at Nelson Bay and Stockton.
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