AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Giselle Wakatama and staff
A retired New South Wales Hunter Valley Catholic priest has become the second Australian person to be charged with covering up child sex offences committed by another man.
The 81-year-old was charged by a dedicated clergy abuse police taskforce at Charlestown Police Station in Newcastle this morning.
He is charged with concealing a serious crime relating to child sex offences allegedly committed by another Hunter Valley man between 1982 and 1984.
Police say a nine-year-old victim was abused at a premise in Nelson Bay, Port Stephens, and at a beach at Newcastle.
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