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Sunday Star Times
JONATHAN CARSON
A former Catholic priest, now living in Nelson, has been charged with historic sex offences, including indecently assaulting young girls and rape.
Peter Joseph Hercock, 71, a former chaplain at Sacred Heart College in Lower Hutt and administrator at a Nelson school, appeared in the Nelson District Court last week.
He is charged with two counts of rape, five counts of indecently assaulting girls aged under 16, assault and unlawfully entering a building.
He is yet to enter a plea.
All of the charges relate to alleged offending in the 1970s and 80s in Lower Hutt, Upper Hutt and Wainuiomata.
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