AUSTRALIA
The Age
Melissa Cunningham
Former Ballarat priest Paul David Ryan will front a Melbourne court next month over a string of historical child sex offences.
The 68-year-old was charged this month with multiple offences against a number of alleged victims from across Victoria.
The charges include rape, indecent assault and sexual penetration of a child under 16 years old.
Detectives from Victoria Police’s Sano taskforce, the squad set up to investigate historic child sexual abuse, are believed to be investigating Mr Ryan in the wake of evidence revealed in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
The charges are believed to date back to the years between 1981 and 1985 when Mr Ryan was a priest and the alleged victims were students at Christian Brothers College in Warrnambool.
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