AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
October 20, 2014
Jane Lee
Legal Affairs Reporter for The Age
A Catholic priest deported from Papua New Guinea has been remanded in custody over alleged child sex offences dating to the 1960s.
Roger Mount, 72, was last week deported to Australia from Papua New Guinea, where he was the priest of a remote parish. This is despite the Catholic Church apologising to and paying at least two people who alleged he had sexually abused them as children in the 1990s and the 2000s.
Legal documents show the St John of God order paid alleged victims more than $100,000.
Father Mount was charged with sex offences against seven different children in Queensland on Friday
He was charged with 40 counts of indecent assault, 14 counts of buggery, five counts of gross indecency and three counts of unlawful assault between 1968 and 1974 at Greensborough and Mount Eliza.
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