AUSTRALIA/NEW GUINEA
Radio Australia
Australian priest accused of child abuse suffers suspected drug overdose and awaits deportation
By Papua New Guinea correspondent Liam Cochrane
An Australian priest accused of child abuse has been discharged from a Papua New Guinean hospital after a suspected drug overdose and is awaiting deportation.
Father Roger Mount was rushed to Port Moresby General Hospital unconscious and vomiting on October 8, just hours after being made aware of plans to send him back to Australia.
Hospital and church officials said he has now been discharged and the ABC understands he is staying in Port Moresby while PNG immigration officials organise his deportation.
Father Mount has spent decades in Papua New Guinea, most recently at a small rural parish in Sogeri, 45 kilometres outside Port Moresby.
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