AUSTRALIA
The Examiner
A FORMER Hobart-based Catholic priest has been removed from his duties in a New Zealand parish after being charged with indecent assault.
Police have charged Aidan Kay, a priest at St Mary’s Catholic Parish in Wellington, with an offence following a complaint, the Catholic Archbishop of Wellington John Dew said in a statement yesterday.
Father Kay was based in Hobart for five years and took up his post in New Zealand in February 2013.
“As this case is due before the courts no further details will be discussed,” Archbishop Dew said.
Archdiocese vicar-general Monsignor Gerry Burns told parishioners at mass yesterday that police had charged Father Kay, a Passionist priest, with indecent assault following a complaint, The Marlborough Express reported.
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