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24 March 2017

Father Barry Tunks charged with indecently assaulting a child in the 1970s

FORMER Maitland-Newcastle diocese Vicar General Barry Tunks has been charged with child sex offences after a man alleged he was sexually abused by two Catholic priests and another man in the Taree area in the late 1970s.
Father Tunks, 76, was charged at Waratah police station on Thursday by detectives from Manning/Great Lakes Local Area Command. He will appear in Forster Local Court in April charged with three counts of indecent assault.

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/4551595/priest-charged-after-man-alleges-sexual-abuse-by-four-men/