A 92-year-old Sydney priest is charged with buggery of a child from 40 years ago
A Catholic priest, Father Theodore Arrivoli (now
aged 92), who has ministered in many parishes around the Sydney region
during the past 60 years, was charged in court on 15 January 2015
regarding alleged sexual assaults of two children near Sydney in the
1970s. The alleged offences include buggery. This court hearing was a "first mention" procedure, with a magistrate
in the Penrith Local Court, north-west of Sydney. This was a brief
administrative process for the charges to be officially filed in court.
Father Arrivoli has not yet been required to indicate how he will plead
in answer to the charges.
