AUSTRALIA
Northern Star
Leah White | 21st Jul 2016
IT WAS seeing Father John Casey during a broadcast of Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes’ funeral in 2014 that prompted a second victim to finally come forward and join his younger brother in making formal allegations of child sexual abuse against the Lismore priest.
The father of the two brothers was in the witness stand at Casey’s trial in Lismore District Court yesterday, where he was cross-examined by defence barrister Charles Waterstreet.
Casey is facing 27 charges relating to the historical rape, sexual assault and indecent assault of three young boys in Mallanganee in the 1980s.
All but one charge relates to incidents that allegedly involved the two brothers.
The court heard the third victim, who is the youngest of the three complainants and was between nine and 10 years old when the assaults occurred, told his father in 2005 he was sexually assaulted by Casey as a child.
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