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	Priest on Sex Charge Herald Sun [Australia] April 20, 2006 http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,18868365%5E2862,00.html A FORMER Victorian priest was arrested in far north Queensland yesterday and charged with sexual assault of a boy. Paul David Ryan, 58, was charged with indecent assault of a 16-year-old boy at Penshurst, in western Victoria, in 1991. Dr Ryan, who has a theology degree from the US, was working as a health officer for the Apunipima Aboriginal community in far north Queensland until he resigned early this year. He had worked for several years for the Cape York district health council, a government body based at Weipa. Dr Ryan was arrested early on Tuesday at his unit in Cairns by local police and Warrnambool detectives. Victorian police yesterday successfully applied to a Cairns magistrate for Dr Ryan's extradition to appear at Warrnambool Magistrates' Court on July 7. Dr Ryan was then released on conditional bail.
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