NSW: Former school priest faces 33 child sex abuse charges

AAP General News (Australia)
08-27-2008
NSW: Former school priest faces 33 child sex abuse charges

A victim of a former NSW catholic boys school priest charged with 33 counts of sexually
abusing students .. says boys were sometimes forced to abuse each other in orgies.

The Daily Telegraph reports a former teacher from St Stanislaus' College at Bathurst
.. in central western NSW .. has already been convicted of several charges .. while two
other teachers from the school are under investigation.

The 65-year-old former priest .. who now lives in Sydney .. worked at the school in
the 1980s and was arrested in May this year.

He has already faced court and is due to return to Bathurst Local Court on September 15.

One victim who used to board at the school .. now aged 35 .. says he'd wake up to see
groups between eight and 12 being forced to abuse each other.

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