60-YEAR-OLD MAN CHARGED OVER HISTORIC CHILD SEX OFFENCES

A 60-year-old man has been arrested at a home near Lismore, and charged with historic child sex offences.

Police say the man sexually abused five girls aged between two and nine, from 1989 until 2005.

He’s facing 16 offences, including five counts of sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 10.

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