AUSTRALIA
9 News
AAP
A former NSW Catholic priest accused of molesting young altar boys in churches and pools is already in custody awaiting sentence for 40 other child sex offences, a jury has heard.
The trial of the 61-year-old man began on Tuesday, with Sydney’s District Court hearing allegations he abused three altar boys in the early 1980s, all from the same church.
They were then aged about 11, and the accusations range from grabbing genitals to raping a boy on a church altar.
The former regional priest, who can’t be identified, also repeatedly targeted one victim in a local pool, crown prosecutor Bryan Rowe said.
After drinking tea with the alleged victim’s family the former priest would take the boy to a local pool and during several trips he allegedly pinched the boy’s buttocks, pinned him against the pool wall and rubbed the boy’s penis.
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