AUSTRALIA
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AAP
The former head of the Catholic Church’s defence force diocese has denied he inappropriately touched boys and has blamed another priest and a brother for assaults at a college more than 40 years ago.
Bishop Max Leroy Davis is charged with six counts of being grossly indecent with five boys under the age of 15 between 1969 and 1972 at St Benedict’s College in New Norcia, northeast of Perth.
Davis, 70, testified in the West Australian District Court on Thursday that he never thought of children sexually or committed a child sex offence, describing it as wrong and inappropriate.
Defence counsel Seamus Rafferty has previously suggested two alternative suspects, who are now dead, including a Father Justin, who Davis had a role in removing as rector.
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