AUSTRALIA
Sky News

A former Catholic priest has been charged with historical indecent assaults on a number of children in Sydney’s Northern Beaches.

The 75-year-old was arrested at his Cootamundra home on Monday after police seized a number of documents and computers from the premises.

In May, investigators information about alleged a series of alleged indecent assaults involving five boys between 1973 and 1976, at schools in Manly and Goulburn.

The man was charged with nine counts of indecent assault of a male and one count of act of indecency.

He was given conditional bail to appear at Cootamundra Local Court on December 5.