AUSTRALIA
Sky News

An elderly Catholic priest has appeared in court accused of child sex offences dating from 40 years ago.

Roger Melville Mount, 72, who has been living in Papua New Guinea but was recently extradited from Queensland, faced 62 charges in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday afternoon.

He faces 40 counts of indecent assault, 14 of buggery, five of gross indecency and three of unlawful assault.

In charge sheets lodged with the court, police allege he sexually abused seven boys at Greensborough and Mount Eliza between 1968 and 1974.