AUSTRALIA
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ROSE BRENNAN
The Courier-Mail
May 13, 2013
A RETIRED Catholic priest facing more than 50 counts of child sex abuse was too ill to appear in court this morning.
The 77-year-old Father faces 57 counts of indecent dealing with a child and one count of common assault.
The abuse is alleged to have taken place from 1977 to 1988 in south-east Queensland schools the parishioner presided over.
His is accused of abusing girls and boys under the ages of 14 and 16.
He did not appear in the Beenleigh Magistrates Court this morning in front of Magistrate Joan White.
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