ADELAIDE (SOUTH AUSTRALIA)
ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
By Rebecca Opie
A former Catholic priest who snuck through a window to sexually abuse one of his young victims has apologised for his crimes, ahead of his sentencing in Adelaide’s District Court.
Charles Alfred Barnett, 72, was jailed in 2010 for sexually abusing four teenage boys between 1977 and 1994 while he was the priest at a Catholic church in Port Pirie, in South Australia’s mid-north.
He was arrested in Indonesia in 2008 and extradited to South Australia.
On his release from the six-year sentence, he faced further charges relating to the indecent assault of two children and the persistent sexual exploitation of another child.
He pleaded guilty to the charges and will be sentenced for those crimes within weeks.
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