AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Giselle Wakatama and David Marchese
A former Hunter Valley priest accused of child abuse has died just weeks after charges against him were reinstated.
During a recent royal commission hearing into Newcastle’s Anglican Diocese, abuse survivor CKA said he was abused by a priest known as CKC while he was an altar boy between 1971 and 1975.
A trial against CKC started in 2001, but the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions ended up withdrawing the charges.
The case was no-billed when CKC’s defence team produced a register showing the abuse could not have happened when CKA said it did.
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