FORMER St Pius X, Adamstown school teacher Ted Hall has not entered pleas after appearing in Newcastle Court on charges of indecently assaulting four students during the 1980s.
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Mr Hall, 66, will not be required to appear in Newcastle when the matter returns to court in October after magistrate Ian Cheetham agreed the Junee man could appear via video link from Wagga Wagga court.
Mr Hall, a retired maths teacher, was charged with indecently assaulting four St Pius students at Adamstown and Merewether between 1983 and 1986.
Police allege Mr Hall touched the four boys, aged 15, on the genitals while they were under his authority, and allegedly forced one boy to masturbate his penis and “continued to masturbate himself in his presence”.
Mr Hall applied to vary his bail requiring him to report to Junee police three days a week. Mr Cheetham refused the request.
The court was told the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions would take over the case before his next appearance.
Mr Hall was a teacher at St Pius between 1973 and 1983.
In a statement by Mr Hall tendered at the trial of former St Pius teacher and child sex offender Catholic priest, John Denham, he said he had worked with about 25 priests during his decade at the school.
Mr Hall, a former army sergeant, described St Pius as “a very disciplined school”.
“Lay teachers and priests used the cane to discipline the boys,” he told police in his statement.
“During my time at St Pius I did not hear, see or learn of any misbehaviour by any priest against a school student.”
Mr Hall was charged after an investigation by Newcastle police led by Detective Simon Grob.