AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
BY BEN SMEE
05 Jul, 2012
A HUNTER priest accused of sexual acts with a 19-year-old during a mid-1980s church synod failed to attend an Anglican Professional Standardsd Board hearing into the complaints yesterday.
The priest, who cannot be named for legal reasons, faces internal charges, including that he breached the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle’s professional standards ordinance and code of conduct.
Specific complaints include that he drank alcohol in a motel room with two teenagers, aged 17 and 19 at the time, at the church synod in the Riverina in 1984.
The 19-year-old made a formal statement to police alleging that he then engaged in simultaneous sex acts with two priests, including the accused priest, while a third priest watched.
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