AUSTRALIA
Broken Rites
By a Broken Rites researcher (article posted 2 May 2014)
Terrence Melville Pidoto, aged 69, who has had a long career as a Catholic priest in parishes around Melbourne, was charged in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on 1 May 2014 with multiple child-sex offences.
The court conducted a brief administrative procedure during which the prosecutor filed the charges in court.
Terrence Pidoto, who currently resides near Ararat in western Victoria, appeared in court via a video link.
According to court documents, the charges against Pidoto comprise 15 counts of indecent assault, allegedly committed against eight young males.
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