WA priest charged with child sex offences

AUSTRALIA
9 News

A 79-year-old Perth priest has been charged with child sex offences going as far back as 1969.

Police allege the man indecently assaulted a girl who was aged 10 to 12 when he was a priest at St Aloysius Church in Shenton Park in 1980.

They claim the same priest was working at the Holy Name Church in Carlisle in 1969 when he indecently assaulted a girl aged six to seven.

The offences allegedly occurred at the presbytery.

The man has been charged with six counts of indecent dealing with a child under 13.

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