AUSTRALIA
ABC News

By Bruce MacKenzie

Catholic priest and former police chaplain John Patrick Casey has been found not guilty of 16 charges relating to the sexual abuse of children in northern New South Wales in the mid 1980s.

A jury did not deliver a verdict on 11 other charges relating to the same offences.

The Director of Public Prosecutions has until September 21 to decide if those matters will be pursued.

Casey was accused of molesting three boys on four separate occasions when each were staying with him at the Mallanganee Presbytery, west of Casino.