AUSTRALIA
Broken Rites
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 8 October 2014)
Catholic priest Father Glenn Humphreys, 61, who has ministered around Australia, is about to be sentenced by a judge for crimes committed in Western Australia. Father Humphreys has also ministered in New South Wales (at St Stanislaus College, Bathurst) and in north Queensland but the current sentencing is confined to West Australian matters.
Father Humphreys is a member of the Australia-wide Catholic order of Vincentian Fathers, which has its national headquarters in Sydney.
Father Humphreys moved to Perth in January 1983 after working on the staff of St Stanislaus College, Bathurst, New Souh Wales.
On 21 August 2014, Father Humphreys was found guilty by a West Australian jury of sexually abusing a teenage boy on church property in Western Australia between 1983 and 1986 while he was assistant priest at a church in Perth.
After six hours of deliberation, a W.A. District Court jury convicted Humphreys of four counts of unlawful and indecent assault.
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