AUSTRALIA
Armidale Express
By DANNIELLE MAGUIRE Nov. 19, 2014
A FORMER priest has been committed to trial for historic child sex abuse, facing a total of 76 charges.
In a committal hearing yesterday afternoon, Magistrate Karen Stafford ruled there was significant evidence for a jury to convict the defrocked priest of an indictable offence.
The hearing related to three counts of sexual assault of a person under 16-years-of-age and brought five witnesses before the Armidale Local Court.
The witness list included an alleged victim, his mother and a detective senior constable.
The court heard the victim informed his mother and partner of the alledged assault upon hearing a radio program’s segment about the priest and partaking in an interview on the show.
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