AUSTRALIA
ABC News

By Joanna Menagh

The case against Australian Defence Force (ADF) Bishop Max Davis, accused of child sex offences in Western Australia 45 years ago, has been adjourned until next year.

Davis was facing three charges of indecent treatment of a 13 year-old boy in 1969, when he was a teacher at Saint Benedict’s College in New Norcia, north-east of Perth.

The alleged offences occurred two years before he was ordained as a priest.

A previous court hearing was told Davis would be pleading not guilty.

In the Perth Magistrates Court today prosecutors successfully applied for the case to be adjourned until January next year.