Australian priest admits child sex abuse, testifies in court

A New South Wales District Court heard today from Priest John Sidney Denham, who pled guilty to a string of sexual abuse charges involving 39 minors between 1979 and 1986 in Newcastle and Taree, north of Sydney.

Denham, who was Head of Discipline at St Pius X High School, Newcastle, where 27 of the young boys that he abused attended, claimed to have been given access to the boys when they were sent to him for misbehaving in class and told the court as well as a psychiatrist that "some of them were little bastards who were already in trouble."

Although Denham couldn't offer any explanation as to why he committed the crimes in question, he claimed "[i]t was as if I thought no-one could resist me" having told the court prior that he was aroused by children he took pity on. 67-year-old Denham, whose age led a psychiatrist to class him as being at a low risk of reoffending, has called himself a "mere scumbag paedophile".

Denham finished his testimony by apologising to the victims and their families. He has yet to receive a sentence. He claims he has not committed any more offences in the last 25 years.

Source: WIKINEWS

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I bet Catholic priests miss the good old days, when molesting children was so much easier. It always seems to be 'young boys'. Perhaps this is the case because children are the only ones these priests can physically control and keep quite. A Catholic priest doing a sexual act with a young boy shows homosexual tendencies, which is no surprise (which I'll explain).

A gay man would be more likely to live a life of celibacy in a society which condemns homosexuality. People will accuse me of saying that "all gay people are pedophiles", or that "being gay makes a person more likely to be a pedophile", to clear this up, let me explain. Hypothetically, let's say that heterosexuality was viewed as taboo in a society. This caused heterosexuals to be pushed into the more socially acceptable life of celibacy (because male on female sex is taboo). This fits nicely with the only job where celibacy is not only a good thing, but required. Let's say that these celibate heterosexuals lived this lifestyle for 30+ years, and were surrounded by young girls. I would be willing to bet that high amounts of child molestation would occur. My point is that the suppression of the natural human sex drive is the main problem here, along with the condemnation of homosexuality by society. Once both of these things are gone, so will go the high amount of 'child touching'. Virtually all humans have sexual urges, when those urges get suppressed over the greater part of a lifetime, it can psychologically screw an individual up, making them do crazy things. The Catholic church must allow priests to marry, and condemn pedophilia in a much more convincing way.