AUSTRALIA
Advocate
10 May 2017
CHILD Abuse Squad detectives have charged three men as a result of ongoing investigations stemming from the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Offences.
All three men worked at the Wandering Mission during the 1960s, one as a Catholic priest and two as teachers.
It is alleged between 1965 and 1969 the priest sexually abused four girls who were aged between eight and 15 years at the time of the first offence.
The man who is now 78 years old has been charged with:
• Six counts of Indecent Dealing of a Girl under 13 years of age;
• Six counts of Unlawful and Indecent Assault on a Female and
• One count of rape.
He was arrested in Melbourne and he is due to appear before the Perth Magistrates Court via video link on June 22.
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