The Independent Saunders is the most senior Catholic official in the country to be charged with child sex offences after Cardinal Pell
Retired bishop Christopher Saunders has been charged with rape and child abuse in a remote part of Australia‘s northwest.
The 74-year-old former bishop of Broome was arrested and taken into custody by Western Australia police on Wednesday following investigations launched by law enforcement and the clergy.
Mr Saunders is the most senior Catholic official in Australia to be charged with child sexual offences after Cardinal George Pell.
Mr Saunders has previously denied any wrongdoing.
He was taken to the Broome police station and charged overnight with 19 offences — two counts of rape, 14 counts of unlawful and indecent assault and three counts of being a person in authority indecently dealing with a child.
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