AUSTRALIA
ABC News
A jury has been told a veil of silence lasting 30 years has been lifted during the trial of a Catholic priest accused of child sex offences.
John Patrick Casey had been a police chaplain for two decades before he was arrested in July last year and charged on 27 counts relating to 18 allegations of child sexual abuse.
The 68-year-old is accused of molesting three boys on four separate occasions when each was staying with him at the Mallanganee Presbytery, west of Casino in northern New South Wales, in the mid 1980s.
Mr Casey, who has been on bail, pleaded not guilty to the charges, when he appeared in the Lismore District Court for the trial that began on July 16.
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