Sydney Magistrate Graeme Curran committed to trial on child sex offences
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A high-profile Sydney magistrate has been committed to stand trial on child sex offences.
Graeme Bryan Curran, 68, is facing nine counts of indecently assaulting a teenage boy in the 1980s.
In court this morning, Mr Curran waived his right to a committal hearing, meaning the case will now proceed to the District Court for trial.
He has not yet entered a plea to the charges.
A committal hearing usually takes place before a trial to determine whether there is enough evidence for a case to be tried, but an accused person can choose not to have one.
To this point, his matter has been heard in the Downing Centre Local Court by Victorian Magistrate Felicity Broughton via video link.
A spokesperson for the Chief Magistrate's Office said this was to "avoid any apprehension of bias" and that it was standard practice for a judicial officer from another jurisdiction to hear a case if it involved a New South Wales magistrate.
Mr Curran was arrested by detectives from the Sex Crimes Squad in October 2017 and charged over alleged offences between January 1980 and December 1983.
Court documents revealed eight of those alleged offences occurred in Balmain and one in Bega.
Mr Curran remains on bail and his case will be back in court on July 6.
He did not answer questions from journalists as he left court.
He remains suspended from his position as a magistrate until the matter is finalised.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, courts-and-trials, sydney-2000
