AUSTRALIA
7 News
ABC
BY REBECCA TRIGGER
July 25, 2014
The Catholic Bishop of the Australian Defence Force is to plead not guilty to child sexual offences dating back 45 years, a Perth court has been told.
Bishop Max Leroy Davis is accused of abusing a student at St Benedict’s College at New Norcia, north-east of Perth, in 1969.
He was a teacher there at the time, and the offences allegedly occurred two years before he was ordained.
Davis is believed to be the most senior clergyman in the Catholic Church in Australia, and the first bishop to be charged with a child sexual offence.
He held the senior post of Bishop for the Australian Catholic Defence Diocese, but has since stood aside from the role.
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