AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
By JOANNE McCARTHY Feb. 27, 2014
A HUNTER man who was raped by paedophile priest John Denham was not in court yesterday for the process that will confirm Denham dies in jail.
‘‘I don’t want to see him ever again,’’ the man, 49, said.
‘‘The police asked me to write a victim’s impact statement, but even that’s beyond me. I hope the next time I hear about him will be when they let me know he’s passed away.’’
A pre-sentence hearing in Sydney yesterday was adjourned to May on an application from Denham’s lawyer. The former priest, who was defrocked by the Catholic Church in 2011 – 11 years after he was first convicted of sexually abusing a boy – pleaded guilty in August last year to 25 child sex charges involving 18 boys at Singleton, Wingham and St Pius X School, Adamstown, in the 1970s, and accepted another 23 indecent assault charges had occurred.
The 25 offences, including buggery, forced oral sex and indecent assault, were committed against boys aged 11, 12 and 13.
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