Hunter priest charged with historical child sex offences

AUSTRALIA
ABC News

A Hunter Valley priest has been charged with indecently assaulting a boy in the early 1970’s.

Police were alerted about the religious brother in March last year and investigators from Strike Force Georgiana were called in.

Yesterday a 66-year-old man was charged with three offences of alleged offences of indecent assault against a boy.

Officers allege the offences happened at Maitland between 1971 and 1972.

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