AUSTRALIA
Perth Now
PHIL HICKEY PERTHNOW MAY 15, 2015
THE head of the Catholic Church’s military diocese will stand trial in the West Australian District Court over child sex offences dating back more than 40 years.
Bishop Max Leroy Davis, 68, is alleged to have indecently dealt with a boy under the age of 14 and committed indecent practices between males in public in 1969 when he was teaching at St Benedict’s College in New Norcia, northeast of Perth.
Davis, who was not an ordained priest at the time of the alleged offences, is understood to be the first Australian bishop and the most senior Australian church official to be charged with child sex offences.
He will face a trial in August.
Man, 66, charged over 1980s child sex assaults
Police have charged an elderly man with 33 child sex offences relating to six alleged victims dating back to 1980.
Child Abuse Squad detectives arrested and charged the 66-year-old man in South Australia on Thursday and extradited him to Western Australia.
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