A Catholic priest has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a teenage boy in the early 1980s, but the jury was unable to reach a verdict on two other charges.
A jury found the Catholic priest had given a teenage boy an indecent massage while the boy was staying at his house.The jury was unable to reach a verdict on two other charges, and it has not yet been determined if there will be a retrial.A Catholic priest remains free on bail after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a teenage boy while he was a parish priest in the early 1980s.
It was unable to reach a verdict on two other charges relating to the incident, which took place in his home at Mallanganee in northern New South Wales. The court heard the complainant never spoke to his friend about what allegedly happened to him, and did not go to the police about it until he was 52 years old.But during closing statements, the Crown prosecutor described the complainant as a credible and honest witness."It either happened and they're being honest about it, or they're lying.
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