Former Armidale Catholic priest John Joseph Farrell has been charged with nine counts of child sexual abuse.
The
charges relate to alleged assaults against two boys, one at Gunnedah in
1975, about 85 kilometres west of Tamworth in northern New South Wales,
and the other at Narrabri in 1983, about 175 kilometres north-west of
Tamworth.http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-08/catholic-priest-john-joseph-farrell-charged-child-sexual-abuse/7826998