AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Catherine Clifford
A court has continued its suppression order on the identity of a former priest charged with 35 historical child sex abuse offences.
At Armidale Local Court, Magistrate Karen Stafford was informed a brief of evidence has been served on the accused, an ex-priest from Armidale.
In January, detectives from the Sex Crimes Squad and New England Local Area Command charged the 59-year-old with 35 offences relating to alleged sexual assaults in the 1980s on six alter boys from the Moree and Armidale dioceses.
Magistrate Stafford adjourned the matter to May 8.
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