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New South Wales Police Force
Catholic Priest charged over historical child indecent assaults – Strike Force Belle
Tuesday, 04 March 2014
Police investigating the sexual and indecent assault of children at schools in the state’s central west have arrested and charged another man.
Investigators from Strike Force Belle arrested a 61-year-old man at his residence in Marsfield today (Tuesday 4 March).
The priest was taken to Ryde Police Station and charged with 14 counts of aggravated indecent assault which allegedly occurred between 1975 and 1982 at a catholic secondary college in Bathurst.
The man has been granted conditional bail and will appear at Burwood Local Court on Wednesday 23 April.
This is the 11th priest or former priest to be charged by Strike Force Belle detectives, which was formed to investigate allegations of the sexual and indecent assaults of students at two secondary colleges in Bathurst between 1960 and 1993.
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