AUSTRALIA
Broken Rites
By a Broken Rites researcher (article posted 16 January 2014)
Father Glenn Humphreys, 60, a member of the Australia-wide Catholic order of Vincentian Fathers, has been charged with child sexual abuse allegedly committed in Western Australia. Father Humphreys has ministered in several states in Australia. Until 2011, he administered the Townsville Cathedral parish in northern Queensland on behalf of the Bishop of Townsville.
On 16 January 2014, the Humphreys case came up for a brief administrative procedure (a committal mention) in the Perth Magistrates Court.
Father Humphreys, who lives at a Vincentian address in Sydney, was not required to be present when his name was mentioned in court. The administrative procedure was handled by the magistrate in consultation with the prosecutor and a defence lawyer.
West Australian detectives have charged Father Humphreys with four counts of unlawful and indecent assault and one charge each of carnal knowledge and attempted carnal knowledge, allegedly committed against a teenage boy in Western Australia between 1983 and 1986, when the boy was aged 15 to 17.
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