Ex-chaplain tries to halt case
From: Sunday Mail (SOuth Australia news)
February 12, 2006
Chris Pippos THE former chaplain of an exclusive Adelaide boys school - previously extradited from Thailand to face child sex abuse charges - is attempting to overturn his committal to stand trial for the alleged crime.

John Mountford, 50, is taking action in the Supreme Court this week to quash his District Court trial.
Mountford has also made an application to the court to suppress his name and affidavit.

He was charged with multiple child sex offences in March last year after a protracted extradition from Thailand.

The offences were allegedly committed in 1991 and 1992 when he was a chaplain at St Peter's Boys School.

Mountford is seeking to have two witnesses, who cannot be named for legal reasons, examined during a preliminary examination in the Magistrates Court.


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Supreme Court documents show the Adelaide Magistrates Court declined to previously require the witnesses to be examined by Mountford's counsel.
Mountford has been on home detention bail in suburban Adelaide since April last year.

The allegations against Mountford were first raised in 2002 during the trial of an Anglican priest over sex abuse charges.

They were further detailed in a report by an independent inquiry into the handling of sex abuse allegations in the Anglican Church.

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