AUSTRALIA
WA Today

A Catholic priest denies raping a West Australian teenager more than 30 years ago but admits he has done some wrong things, a court has heard.

Glenn Humphreys, 61, is charged with abusing a boy between 1983 and 1986, when the boy was aged 15 to 17.

Defence lawyer Seamus Rafferty told the Perth District Court it was not disputed that on a few occasions in 1986, Humphreys had engaged in inappropriate behaviour.
But at the time, his actions were lawful and involved mutual touching, Mr Rafferty said in his opening statement.

Prosecutor James MacTaggart said Humphreys had indecently assaulted the victim without consent on several occasions while he was the assistant parish priest at a church in the southern suburb of Rockingham.