AUSTRALIA
Armidale Express
By DANNIELLE MAGUIRE May 29, 2015
A DEFROCKED priest charged with numerous historic child sex offences will finally stand trial in Sydney early next year.
The former Armidale priest, whose identity has been gagged, was sent to trial at Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court on Friday.
He will stand trial in Sydney on January 18.
The trial is expected to take four weeks.
The ex-priest first appeared before the Armidale Local Court on October 18, 2012.
He had been charged with more than 120 offences, including 25 charges relating to the abuse of three girls across regional NSW between 1979 and 1988; 36 charges relating to the abuse of six boys between 1981 and 1984 in Moree and 64 charges relating to the abuse of two girls and one altar boy between 1982 and 1985.
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